Prairie Crossing Charter School

The Prairie Crossing area has one school, Prairie Crossing Charter School, an elementary school serving kindergarten through grade 8, with 433 students. The clearest finding is that the school’s results are above Illinois in every reported 2025–2026 subject and grade: all-grades proficiency is 79% in English Language Arts (ELA), 56% statewide, and 69% in math, versus 40% statewide; science results are also higher than the state’s in grades 5 and 8.

There are no school-to-school top and bottom comparisons in this one-school area; within Prairie Crossing, grade 6 ELA is the strongest result, at 92% proficient versus 59% statewide, a 33-point advantage. Grade 3 ELA is the lowest ELA result, at 65%, but still 17 points above the state. Math is strongest relative to the state in grades 6–8, with advantages of 41, 38, and 40 points; grade 5 math is the school’s lowest math result, at 57%, still 21 points above Illinois. Science proficiency is 75% in grade 5 and 79% in grade 8, respectively 28 and 27 points above the state.

All-grades results improved from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, and the school’s lead over Illinois widened: ELA rose from 74% to 79% as the state rose from 53% to 56%, expanding the lead by 2 points; math rose from 63% to 69% while the state moved from 39% to 40%, expanding the lead by 5 points. Science has a grade-level exception: grade 8 rose from 63% to 79%, while grade 5 stayed at 75% as the state’s grade 5 result increased, narrowing the school’s lead by 7 points. SchoolDigger lists Prairie Crossing at 252 of 1,737 schools, in the 85th percentile with 4 stars for 2025–2026; its percentile has stayed around 85–86 over the three listed years. Other context: chronic absenteeism was 5% versus 24% statewide in 2025–2026, the student-teacher ratio was 14.6 in 2024–2025, and 5% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible in 2021–2022.