Summary:
Grant Park CUSD 6 has two schools serving prekindergarten through grade 12: Grant Park Elementary School enrolls 325 students in prekindergarten–grade 8, and Grant Park High School enrolls 127 students in grades 9–12, for 452 total. Because the schools serve different grades, their test scores are not a direct school-to-school ranking. The clearest academic standout is Grant Park Elementary: its all-grades results were above state levels in both IAR subjects, with 66% proficiency in ELA versus 56% statewide (+10 points) and 53% in math versus 40% (+13 points).
Grant Park Elementary also led the state comparison in grade 5 science, with 64% proficiency versus 48% (+17 points), though grade 8 science was a weaker spot at 41% versus 52% (11 points below). Grant Park High stands out for strong grade 9 results: PreACT proficiency was 76% in ELA, 54% in math and 57% in science, each 10–14 points above state results. Its grade 11 ACT results were less strong: ELA was 48% versus 50% statewide, and science was 44% versus 48%. The high school’s graduation rate was 97% versus 90% statewide, while chronic absenteeism was 12% at both schools, compared with 24% statewide.
Results changed unevenly over time. At Grant Park Elementary, all-grades ELA proficiency fell 9 points, from 75% to 66%, narrowing its state advantage from 22 to 10 points; math rose 4 points, from 49% to 53%, widening its advantage from 10 to 13 points. At Grant Park High, grade 11 ACT ELA fell 27 points, from 75% to 48%, and science fell 15 points, from 59% to 44%; by contrast, grade 9 PreACT math rose 21 points, from 33% to 54%. SchoolDigger gave both schools four stars in 2025–26; the elementary school’s statewide percentile moved from 80th to 75th since 2023–24, and the high school’s from 74th to 72nd. In 2024–25, student-teacher ratios were 12.2 at the elementary school and 11.1 at the high school. Free/reduced lunch eligible shares that year were 49% and 41%, respectively—an 8-point difference, a useful context measure rather than an explanation for outcomes.
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