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Best Public Schools in Ogden, IL


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116
Students
Top rankedPrairieview-Ogden South Elementary473rd of 1,737 Illinois elementary schools
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Biggest riser
Prairieview-Ogden South Elementary up 249 spots statewide this year
Summary:

Ogden, Illinois, has one listed school, Prairieview-Ogden South Elementary, serving kindergarten through grade 6 with 116 students. The available results show a school that compares favorably with Illinois overall: in 2025–2026, it was above the state in every reported subject measure, with all-grade ELA at 71% versus 56%, all-grade math at 51% versus 40%, and grade 5 science at 55% versus 48%. The most important takeaway is that the school’s reported results exceeded state results across all three measures.

There is no meaningful local top or bottom school because this list contains only one school; Prairieview-Ogden South Elementary is the sole local result. Its strongest state comparison was all-grade ELA, 15 percentage points above the state; its narrowest was grade 5 math, 1 point above. Results varied by grade, too: ELA was 39 points above the state in grade 3, 14 points above in grade 5, and 21 points above in grade 6. In district comparisons, all-grade ELA was 8 points below Prairieview-Ogden CCSD 197, while math was essentially even and grade 5 science matched the district.

Results have shifted in different directions: ELA rose from 53% in 2024–2025 to 71% in 2025–2026, while math fell by 2 points and grade 5 science fell by 3. The school’s advantage over the state grew by 18 points in ELA, but narrowed by 3 points in math and 10 points in science. SchoolDigger’s statewide standing also improved, from the 55th percentile and three stars in 2023–2024 to the 73rd percentile and four stars in 2025–2026. As additional context, the school reported a student-teacher ratio of 9.3 and 15% of students free/reduced lunch eligible in 2024–2025; 2025–2026 chronic absenteeism was 8%, below the state’s 24% but above the district’s 6%.

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SchoolDigger data sources: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education, the U.S. Census Bureau, the Illinois Department of Public Health and the Illinois State Board of Education.

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