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Which teacher or staff member at Prairie Grove Elem School deserves more recognition?
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Enrollment
552
Elementary
DISTRICT 455 · STATE 381
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PRAIRIE GROVE CSD 46·NCES 173252003380
Prairie Grove Elementary School
3223 IL Route 176, Crystal Lake, IL 60014 · (815) 459-3023 · McHenry County
GRADES PK–04ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL552 STUDENTS
B
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Scored higher than 63% of Illinois public elementary schools
- A-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Illinois public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
13.0:1
42 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.9:1 · STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
22%
121 students
DISTRICT 22% · STATE 56%
Community
5
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 58 | 11% |
| Kindergarten | 94 | 17% |
| Grade 1 | 94 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 98 | 18% |
| Grade 3 | 107 | 19% |
| Grade 4 | 101 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (94) is 7% smaller than its 4th grade class (101).
Student demographics
30%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 32% · STATE 69% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Prairie Grove Elementary School→Prairie Grove Junior High School
Based on grade levels within Prairie Grove CSD 46. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
IAR + ISA 2024-25 . % Proficient (Levels 4-5)English Language Arts
60.7%
IL avg 51.0% . +6.9pp since 2023
Math
59.0%
IL avg 37.9% . +7.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 61 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 59 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Illinois schools, those numbers are about 51 and 38. Reading and writing scores are up about 7 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 7 points.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 60.7% | 59.0% |
| 2023-24 | 53.8% | 52.0% |
% Proficient (Levels 4-5), all students and all tested grades.
Source: IAR + ISA. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
58.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
58.9%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-0.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 58% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 59% typical for Illinois schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Illinois's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Prairie Grove Elementary School
Prairie Grove Elementary School's state test result (58.3% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Prairie Grove Elementary School this school | 552 | 21.9% | 58.3% |
| Central School Lemont | 591 | 19.0% | 59.4% |
| Ball Elementary School Chatham | 552 | 22.8% | 65.6% |
| River Valley School Lemont | 588 | 18.4% | 65.1% |
| Husmann Elementary School Crystal Lake | 518 | 24.7% | 44.3% |
| Heyworth Elementary School Heyworth | 472 | 24.2% | 56.5% |
Matched among Illinois elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Prairie Grove Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Illinois | In McHenry County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 58.3% | #368 of 1,925 | #11 of 44 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 59.0% | #437 of 2,077 ▼ 164 | #10 of 44 ▼ 7 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 60.7% | #660 of 2,077 ▼ 277 | #20 of 44 ▼ 13 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 552 | #372 of 2,419 | #11 of 51 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.0:1 | #890 of 2,035 | #21 of 49 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 30.3% | #1,390 of 2,042 | #47 of 49 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 21.9% | #1,931 of 2,132 | #48 of 49 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +29.9% | #68 of 615 | #1 of 16 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
552
+80 (+17%) vs 2020
-23% since 1990-91, when it was 718
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 552 | 42.5 | 13.0:1 | 22% (121) |
| 2023-24 | 533 | 43.3 | 12.3:1 | 22% (117) |
| 2022-23 | 492 | 39.5 | 12.5:1 | 19% (92) |
| 2020-21 | 472 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 425 | 38.9 | 10.9:1 | 18% (76) |
| 2015-16 | 469 | 40 | 11.7:1 | 19% (89) |
| 2010-11 | 594 | 43 | 13.8:1 | 16% (96) |
| 2000-01 | 655 | 39 | 16.8:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 718 | 37 | 19.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Prairie Grove Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 30% (425 to 552); teachers up 9% (38.9 to 42.5).
About Prairie Grove Elementary School
Prairie Grove Elementary School is a mid-sized elementary school in Crystal Lake, Illinois, administered by Prairie Grove CSD 46. It is open to students in pre-K through 4 and enrolls 552 students. Elementary schools in Illinois have about 381 students on average; enrollment here is 45% higher.
Across its 2 schools, Prairie Grove CSD 46 enrolls 909 students. Prairie Grove Elementary School is one of those schools.
White students are 83% of those enrolled at Prairie Grove Elementary School. Next come 9% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, and 3% Asian. That is in line with McHenry County, where about 80% of residents are White. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 30%.
Prairie Grove Elementary School lists 42.5 full-time-equivalent teachers; that is about 13.0 students per teacher. The school's 13.0:1 compares with an average of 13.9:1 for elementary schools in Illinois. Free or reduced-price lunch covers 22% of the student body. The 35% average for public schools in McHenry County is 13 points higher.
Among Illinois public elementary schools, Prairie Grove Elementary School outscored 63%, which works out to a B on the allk12 Grade.
In Illinois, Prairie Grove Elementary School is in the middle band of BeatsExpectations: 58.3% actual against a predicted 58.9%.
In McHenry County, home to about 312,591 people, the median household earns about $104,802 a year, roughly 35% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Public schools in McHenry County number 89, with about 50,123 students.
The closest school to Prairie Grove Elementary School is Prairie Grove Junior High School, located less than a tenth of a mile away. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. On proficiency, Prairie Grove Elementary School is ahead of the 52.8% nearby average, ranking 3rd of 9.
The school's setting, by NCES definition, is Suburb: Large: in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
The school grew from 472 students in 2020-21 to 552 in 2024-25.
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McHenry County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
312,591
Census ACS
Median income
$104,802
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
35%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
4%
Below federal line
Schools in county
89
50,123 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Prairie Grove CSD 46
- Prairie Grove Junior High SchoolMiddle · 357 students
Other schools in Crystal Lake
- Crystal Lake Central High SchoolHigh · 1,443 students
- Crystal Lake South High SchoolHigh · 1,279 students
- Prairie Ridge High SchoolHigh · 1,133 students
- Hannah Beardsley Middle SchoolMiddle · 829 students
- Lundahl Middle SchoolMiddle · 797 students
- Richard F Bernotas Middle SchoolMiddle · 737 students
Other Prairie Grove Elementary schools
2 other US public schools in 3 states are named Prairie Grove Elementary. Prairie Grove Elementary School is the 2nd largest of the 3.
- PRAIRIE GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLPRAIRIE GROVE, AR · 763 students
- Prairie Grove Elementary SchoolHazelton, IA · 23 students
Nearby schools
- Prairie Grove Junior High School0.1 mi · 357
- Deer Path Elementary School2.1 mi · 452
- Cary Jr High School2.3 mi · 761
- Hannah Beardsley Middle School2.4 mi · 829
- Prairie Ridge High School2.8 mi · 1,133
- Cary-Grove Community High School2.8 mi · 1,348
Frequently asked questions
About Prairie Grove Elementary SchoolHow large is Prairie Grove Elementary School?
Prairie Grove Elementary School enrolls approximately 552 students in grades PK-04.
What age range does Prairie Grove Elementary School serve?
Prairie Grove Elementary School serves students from grade PK through grade 04.
How many teachers does Prairie Grove Elementary School have?
Prairie Grove Elementary School employs 42 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 13.0:1.
What is the student diversity at Prairie Grove Elementary School?
Student demographics at Prairie Grove Elementary School are roughly 83% White, 9% Hispanic, 1% Black, 3% Asian, 4% Two or more.
What district is Prairie Grove Elementary School in?
Prairie Grove Elementary School is part of Prairie Grove CSD 46.
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