Summary:
The Great Hearts Academies – Cicero Prep is the only school listed for Cicero Preparatory Academy, serving grades 6–12 with 507 students. Its reported proficiency rates are above state results in every supplied subject and grade comparison, making its consistently higher-than-state performance the clearest finding for families.
Because it is the only school in the list, Cicero Prep is both the area’s highest- and lowest-scoring school by default; there is no local school-to-school comparison. Compared with the state, its 2025–26 all-grades results are 54% in ELA versus 41% statewide, a 13-point advantage, and 41% in math versus 33%, an 8-point advantage. Grade 11 math is its strongest grade-specific comparison: 58% proficiency versus 31% statewide, a 27-point lead. The smallest margin is in grade 6 math, where 35% is 5 points above the state’s 30%. Science results from 2024–25 are also higher than state figures: 44% versus 30% in grade 8 and 41% versus 19% in grade 11.
Results vary by grade, especially in math: school proficiency ranges from 35% to 58% across the listed grades, while state results range from 27% to 31%. ELA’s all-grades advantage is larger than math’s, but across grades 6, 7, 8, and 11, the average gaps are nearly equal: 13.8 points in ELA and 13.5 in math. SchoolDigger gives Cicero Prep a 4-star rating and ranks it 47th of 256 schools, in the 82nd percentile, for 2025–26. Its percentile rank rose from 83rd in 2023–24 to 87th in 2024–25, then fell to 82nd; the reported 10.9 student–teacher ratio is from 2024–25, and no free/reduced-lunch rate is provided. Because the list has one school and no multi-year test-score series, it cannot show local school-to-school differences or whether proficiency itself is rising or falling.
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