Summary:
ZIP code 60428 has three elementary schools serving 860 students: Barack H Obama Learning Academy serves PK–8, while Markham Park Elementary School and Prairie-Hills STEAM Academy serve PK–5. The clearest finding is that the schools’ latest reported results differ sharply: STEAM’s scores are close to state results, while the other schools’ all-grades ELA scores are substantially lower.
Prairie-Hills STEAM Academy stands out at the top of the reported 2025–2026 results, with 54% proficient in ELA and 36% in math; those rates are about 2 points and 4 points below the state, respectively. Its ELA result is 25 points above Markham Park and 32 points above Obama, and its math result is 23 points above Markham Park. Markham Park Elementary School is in the middle for ELA at 29%, 7 points above Barack H Obama Learning Academy at 22%; Obama’s math result is suppressed, so the schools cannot all be ranked in math. STEAM also led the reported third-grade ELA results, scoring 60% versus Markham Park’s 18%.
Reported IAR results improved from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026: ELA rose by 4 points at Obama, 9 at Markham Park and 5 at STEAM, while the three-school average increased by 6 points. SchoolDigger’s percentiles tell a different story: STEAM fell from 49 to 36 between 2023–2024 and 2024–2025, while Markham Park later rose to 10 in 2025–2026. Markham Park’s student–teacher ratio is 23.3, compared with 16.0 at Obama and 16.1 at STEAM. In 2024–2025, Obama and STEAM reported that all students receive free meals (Community Eligibility); Markham Park reported 94% free/reduced lunch eligible. STEAM’s strong IAR results did not extend to every subject: its 2024–2025 fifth-grade science result was 4%, compared with 16% at Markham Park and 41% statewide. Some school-level results are suppressed, and STEAM’s enrollment is 102 students.
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