Enrollment
279
Elementary
DISTRICT 272 · STATE 381
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ESD 159·NCES 173630003752
Sieden Prairie Elementary School
725 Notre Dame Dr, Matteson, IL 60443 · (708) 720-2626 · Cook County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL279 STUDENTS
C-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 19% of Illinois public elementary schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats 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
14.2:1
20 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.7:1 · STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
82%
229 students
DISTRICT 72% · STATE 56%
Community
0
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 | 52 | 19% |
| Kindergarten | 25 | 9% |
| Grade 1 | 36 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 35 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 43 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 42 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 46 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (25) is 46% smaller than its 5th grade class (46).
Student demographics
57%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 35% · 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
Sieden Prairie Elementary School→Colin Powell Middle School
Based on grade levels within ESD 159. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
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IAR + ISA 2024-25 . % Proficient (Levels 4-5)English Language Arts
26.4%
IL avg 51.0% . +4.1pp since 2023
Math
10.7%
IL avg 37.9% . +4.1pp since 2023
What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 26 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 11 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 4 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 4 points.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 26.4% | 10.7% |
| 2023-24 | 22.3% | 6.6% |
% 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
21.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
24.1%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-2.7pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 21% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 24% 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 Sieden Prairie Elementary School
Sieden Prairie Elementary School's state test result (21.4% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 3 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sieden Prairie Elementary School this school | 279 | 82.1% | 21.4% |
| George Washington Elementary School Alsip | 270 | 81.9% | 25.6% |
| Beulah Park Elementary School Zion | 289 | 82.0% | N/A |
| Martin L King Elementary School Dixmoor | 320 | 82.5% | 15.5% |
| Lakeview School Zion | 249 | 82.7% | N/A |
| Libby Elementary School Chicago | 275 | 76.0% | 19.3% |
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 Sieden Prairie Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Illinois | In Cook County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 21.4% | #1,562 of 1,925 | #541 of 760 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 10.7% | #1,879 of 2,077 ▼ 95 | #696 of 829 ▼ 53 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 26.4% | #1,762 of 2,077 ▼ 272 | #668 of 829 ▼ 128 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 279 | #1,661 of 2,419 | #686 of 901 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.2:1 | #1,293 of 2,035 | #579 of 817 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 57.3% | #673 of 2,042 | #240 of 819 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 82.1% | #467 of 2,132 | #322 of 804 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +10.7% | #262 of 615 | #77 of 186 |
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
279
+1 (+0%) vs 2020
-17% since 1990-91, when it was 338
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 | 279 | 19.7 | 14.2:1 | 82% (229) |
| 2023-24 | 238 | 17.7 | 13.4:1 | 81% (192) |
| 2022-23 | 245 | 17 | 14.4:1 | 46% (112) |
| 2020-21 | 278 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 252 | 20.2 | 12.5:1 | 88% (222) |
| 2015-16 | 248 | 17 | 14.6:1 | 81% (200) |
| 2010-11 | 218 | 17 | 12.8:1 | 75% (164) |
| 2000-01 | 397 | 28 | 14.2:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 338 | 22 | 15.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Sieden Prairie Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 11% (252 to 279); teachers down 2% (20.2 to 19.7).
About Sieden Prairie Elementary School
Sieden Prairie Elementary School is a small elementary school in Matteson, Illinois, (ZIP code 60443). It has an enrollment of 279 students in pre-K through 5. On average, elementary schools in Illinois enroll around 381, and this school is 27% below that mark.
Sieden Prairie Elementary School is one of 5 schools in ESD 159, which enrolls 1,653 students in total.
The biggest share of students at Sieden Prairie Elementary School, 49%, is Black. Next come 42% Hispanic, 4% White, and 4% multiracial. That compares with about 22% Black among all Cook County residents. The diversity index for Sieden Prairie Elementary School is 57%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
On staff are 19.7 full-time-equivalent teachers; the student-to-teacher ratio is 14.2:1. The average for elementary schools in Illinois is about 13.9:1. About 82% of students at Sieden Prairie Elementary School are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. For comparison, public schools in Cook County average 66%.
On the allk12 Grade, Sieden Prairie Elementary School lands at C-, ahead of 19% of Illinois public elementary schools.
Sieden Prairie Elementary School's average proficiency rate across its state test results of 21.4% is 2.7 points below the 24.1% the model predicts from its lunch-eligibility share.
In the surrounding county, Cook County, the median household earns about $83,498 a year, 43% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Counting Sieden Prairie Elementary School, Cook County has 1,406 public schools.
Measured in a straight line, Colin Powell Middle School is about 0.6 miles from Sieden Prairie Elementary School. Within five miles are at least 8 other public schools. Its average proficiency rate of 21.4% is below the 32.3% average for nearby schools.
The school's locale code, Suburb: Large, means it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
The school's size has been steady, with 278 students in 2020-21 and 279 in 2024-25.
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Cook County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
5,182,090
Census ACS
Median income
$83,498
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
43%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
1,406
697,934 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in ESD 159
- Colin Powell Middle SchoolMiddle · 564 students
- Marya Yates Elementary SchoolElementary · 284 students
- Neil Armstrong Elementary SchoolElementary · 266 students
- Woodgate Elementary SchoolElementary · 260 students
Other schools in Matteson
- Colin Powell Middle SchoolMiddle · 564 students
- O W Huth Middle SchoolMiddle · 421 students
- Matteson Elementary SchoolElementary · 420 students
- Marya Yates Elementary SchoolElementary · 284 students
- Woodgate Elementary SchoolElementary · 260 students
Nearby schools
- Colin Powell Middle School0.6 mi · 564
- Woodgate Elementary School0.8 mi · 260
- Marya Yates Elementary School1.0 mi · 284
- Summit Hill Junior High School2.2 mi · 566
- Southland College Prep Chtr High School2.3 mi · 584
- Sauk Elementary School2.3 mi · 281
Frequently asked questions
About Sieden Prairie Elementary SchoolHow large is Sieden Prairie Elementary School?
Sieden Prairie Elementary School enrolls approximately 279 students in grades PK-05.
Is Sieden Prairie Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Sieden Prairie Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many teachers does Sieden Prairie Elementary School have?
Sieden Prairie Elementary School employs 20 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 14.2:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Sieden Prairie Elementary School?
At Sieden Prairie Elementary School, the student body is approximately 4% White, 42% Hispanic, 49% Black, 0% Asian, 4% Two or more.
What district is Sieden Prairie Elementary School in?
Sieden Prairie Elementary School is part of ESD 159.
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