Elementary Schools in North Chicago School District 187

Five elementary schools in North Chicago School District 187 serve students from kindergarten through grade 8; two are K–8, two are K–3, and one serves grades 4–5, with enrollments from 297 to 503. In 2025–2026, four schools had reportable all-grades IAR results; Evelyn Alexander School’s scores were suppressed and cannot be compared. The four-school average was 37% proficient in ELA and 22% in math, versus 56% and 40% statewide. The most important area-wide finding is that results are substantially below state averages, with wide differences among schools.

LEARN Charter School 6 North Chicago Campus leads the reported all-grades results, at 52% in ELA and 36% in math; its ELA score is 3 points above LEARN 10 Charter School’s 49%. LEARN 10 has a notable grade 5 math result: 44%, compared with 36% statewide. At the other end, A J Katzenmaier Academy scores 21% in ELA and 8% in math—31 and 28 points below LEARN 6, respectively. Forrestal Elementary School has 25% ELA and 23% math; its math result is just above LEARN 10’s 22%. The two K–8 charters both exceed state ELA results in grades 6 and 8, while LEARN 6 also exceeds the state in grade 7 ELA and in reported grades 6–8 math.

Among the same four schools with scores in both years, average ELA rose from 32% in 2024–2025 to 37% in 2025–2026, while math fell from 24% to 22%; the state comparison gap narrowed in ELA but widened in math. SchoolDigger placed LEARN 10 at the 33rd statewide percentile, LEARN 6 at the 26th, and Katzenmaier at the 1st in 2025–2026; LEARN 6’s ranking had fallen from the 57th percentile two years earlier. As context, in 2024–2025 LEARN 6 and LEARN 10 reported 61% and 69% free/reduced lunch eligible, while Katzenmaier, Forrestal, and Evelyn Alexander reported all students receive free meals (Community Eligibility). The K–8 schools had similar student–teacher ratios that year: 13.2 at LEARN 6 and 12.9 at LEARN 10.