Prairie Trails School

Prairie Trails School is one of the public schools in Mt Prospect, Illinois. It is a small elementary school. It had 175 students in 2024-25, spanning pre-K through kindergarten. Elementary schools in Illinois average about 381 students, which makes this school 54% below average.

River Trails SD 26 has 4 schools; together they serve 1,462 students.

White students make up 47% of enrollment at Prairie Trails School, the largest share of any group. Beyond that, enrollment is 30% Asian, 15% Hispanic, and 6% multiracial. That is in line with Cook County, where about 44% of residents are White. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 66, compared with 70 nationally.

There are 16 full-time-equivalent teachers at the school, a ratio of 10.9:1. The average for elementary schools in Illinois, 13.9:1, is higher. Of all students at Prairie Trails School, 18% are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. Among public schools in Cook County, the average eligibility rate is 66%.

The school is in Cook County, where the median household earns about $83,498 a year, about 43% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 10% of residents are in poverty. Across Cook County, 1,406 public schools serve about 697,934 students.

A public school about 0.6 miles away, River Trails Middle School, is the closest to Prairie Trails School. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8.

Its NCES locale code is Suburb: Large: the school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.

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