Summary:
ZIP code 60124 has four schools—three elementary schools serving grades 3–5 and one middle school serving grades 6–7; three are in Central CUSD 301, while Otter Creek Elementary is in School District U-46. The clearest area-wide takeaway is that elementary results vary sharply: across shared grades 3–5, Country Trails Elementary averages 26 percentage points higher than Otter Creek in ELA and 22 points higher in math.
Prairie Knolls Middle School stands out in its reported grades, with 86% proficient in ELA and 66% in math—29 and 27 points above state results; it has no same-grade middle-school peer in this list. Among elementary schools, Country Trails leads the grades 3–5 averages at 73% in ELA and 66% in math, compared with 69% and 58% at Prairie View Grade School, and 47% and 44% at Otter Creek. Prairie View is the exception in fourth grade, leading with 80% in ELA and 64% in math. Otter Creek averages 6 points below the state in ELA and 1 point above it in math. SchoolDigger’s 2025–2026 rankings also place Prairie Knolls highest among the four, at the 93rd percentile, and Otter Creek lowest, at the 35th.
Recent results show mixed movement rather than a consistent rise: from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, all-grades ELA increased 3 points at Prairie Knolls and 4 at Otter Creek, while falling 1 point at Country Trails and 6 at Prairie View; the state rose 3 points. SchoolDigger’s three-year ranking percentiles moved from 90 to 93 for Prairie Knolls, 84 to 83 for Country Trails, 78 to 69 for Prairie View, and 45 to 35 for Otter Creek. The schools also differ in their reported free/reduced lunch eligible shares for school year 2024–2025: 17% at Prairie View, 18% at Country Trails, 17% at Prairie Knolls, and 47% at Otter Creek. These figures describe different school contexts, not the reason for differences in test results.
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