Summary:
Prairie Grove Elementary School is the only elementary school listed in Prairie Grove Central School District 46; it serves prekindergarten through grade 4 and enrolls 552 students. With no other local elementary schools in this list, parents can’t compare schools against one another, but the results can be compared with district and state rates. In 2025–26, the school was above the state in both subjects, with its largest advantage in math: 56% were proficient in math, 16 percentage points above the state, while 64% were proficient in ELA, 7 points above the state.
The school’s standout is its math performance relative to the state, not a school-to-school ranking: it exceeded the state rate by 16 points in math, compared with 7 points in ELA. Its district comparison is mixed. ELA proficiency was 3 points below the district’s 66% rate, while math was 7 points above the district’s 49% rate. Grade results were above state rates in every reported subject: grade 3 exceeded the state by 14 points in ELA and 9 in math; grade 4 was ahead by 10 points in ELA and 11 in math. Within the school, grade 4’s ELA rate was 5 points higher than grade 3’s, while its math rate was 5 points lower.
Results changed differently by subject from 2024–25 to 2025–26: ELA proficiency rose by 3 points, from 61% to 64%, while math fell by 3 points, from 59% to 56%; the school’s math advantage over the state narrowed by 5 points. SchoolDigger’s relative ranking also declined, from the 88th percentile in 2023–24 to the 65th percentile in 2025–26, and its rating shifted from 4 stars to 3 stars. Chronic absenteeism was 9% in 2025–26, below the district’s 10% and the state’s 24%. Other context includes a student–teacher ratio of 13 and 22% free/reduced lunch eligible in 2024–25; these figures describe the school, but the single-school list offers no local comparison.
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