Summary:
Forest Park School District 91 has three elementary schools serving prekindergarten through fifth grade: Field Stevenson serves grades 3–5, while Garfield and Betsy Ross serve children through grade 2. The clearest achievement picture is mixed at Field: 2025–26 ELA proficiency was 59%, 3 points above Illinois, while math was 33%, 7 points below the state; fifth-grade science was essentially level with Illinois at 47.6% versus 47.5%. The most important takeaway is that achievement results are provided only for Field, so these figures cannot establish which of the three schools performs best academically.
Garfield stands out for the lowest chronic absenteeism, while Betsy Ross has the highest: in 2025–26, the rates were 17%, 20% at Field Stevenson, and 25%, an 8-point spread from lowest to highest. Garfield and Field were below the state rate of 24%; Betsy Ross was above it. Among the schools’ 2024–25 free/reduced lunch eligible figures, Garfield was lowest at 37%, Field was 50%, and Betsy Ross was highest at 52%. These figures describe reported school measures, not what caused any results.
Field’s results improved in ELA and science but weakened in math from 2024–25 to 2025–26: ELA rose 8 points, fifth-grade science rose 13 points, and math fell 3 points. Field’s SchoolDigger percentile was 50 in 2023–24 and 2024–25, then 43 in 2025–26; the district’s SchoolDigger rating is 1 star, at the 25th percentile, ranked 556th of 738 districts. For 2024–25, student-teacher ratios were 12.4 at Garfield, 10.1 at Field, and 10.4 at Betsy Ross. Those comparisons may help describe the schools, but they do not replace the missing achievement results for Garfield and Betsy Ross.
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