Primary Learning Center

Primary Learning Center, a very small K-5 school in Markham, Illinois, run under Prairie-Hills ESD 144, serves 4 students, covering grade pre-K. By comparison, Illinois's public schools average about 381 students each, so Primary Learning Center sits 99% smaller than that benchmark.

Prairie-Hills ESD 144 runs 9 schools in total, collectively educating 2,473 students. Primary Learning Center is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Primary Learning Center reports that the most-represented group is Hispanic (50%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 50% Black. By comparison, Cook County as a whole is about 27% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, The school lists 2 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 2.0:1. The state averages around 13.9:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Cook County put the typical household earns roughly $83,498 per year, about 43% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Primary Learning Center is one of 1406 public schools in Cook County (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students).

Prairie-Hills STEAM Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

In the discussion threads here, recent activity here tends to focus on open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.