Prairie View Elementary School

Prairie View Elementary School is a K–4 school in Sandwich, Illinois, with 221 students, serving the Sandwich CUSD 430 community. Its 2025–26 results are above state and district levels in both English Language Arts (ELA) and math, but math is the clearest standout: 71% of students were proficient, the highest result among the ten nearby schools with reported scores.

Math is Prairie View’s strongest subject compared with nearby schools, the district and the state: its 71% proficiency rate was 31 points above the state’s 40%, 22 points above the district’s 48%, and 23 points above the nearby-school average of 48%. ELA is also a positive result, at 63%—7 points above the state, 2 above the district and 10 above the nearby-school average—but it ranked third among the ten nearby schools with reported scores. Results differ by grade: fourth graders reached 75% proficiency in ELA and 71% in math, among the highest nearby results, while third-grade ELA was 50%, just 2 points above the state and 5 above the district. Third-grade math was stronger at 71%, 21 points above the state and 11 above the district.

Both subjects improved over the three years reported, though math’s large lead over the state narrowed overall. From 2023–24 to 2025–26, ELA rose 12 points, from 51% to 63%, while math rose 3 points, from 68% to 71%; the math advantage over the state narrowed from 39 points to 31. Chronic absenteeism also declined, from 22% in 2022–23 to 10% in 2025–26, below the district’s 17% and state’s 24%. SchoolDigger ranks Prairie View in the 78th statewide percentile and gives it four stars. Its 2024–25 student-teacher ratio was 17.9, and 37% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible that year. SchoolDigger’s “White Students” ranking is notably lower than its overall ranking—56th percentile and three stars, compared with 78th percentile overall—indicating a lower SchoolDigger measure of how well the school serves that group.