Summary:
ZIP code 60431 has five elementary schools, with 2025–26 results available across all grades and grade-by-grade comparisons for grades 3 and 4; fifth-grade science results are available for two schools. Together, the schools averaged 53% proficiency in English language arts (ELA), below the state’s 56%, and 43% in math, above the state’s 40%. Results vary substantially from school to school, especially in math: Jones Elementary School led the group, while Grand Prairie Elementary School had the lowest all-grades results in both subjects.
Jones Elementary School was the clearest all-around standout, with 64% proficiency in ELA and 58% in math—8 and 18 percentage points above state results, respectively. Grand Prairie Elementary School scored 45% in ELA and 25% in math, 11 and 14 points below the state. Strengths also depend on grade: Thomas Jefferson Elementary School led third grade in ELA and math, at 62% and 63%, but its fifth-grade math result was 19%. The subject split at the Troy schools may also matter to families: Troy Heritage Trail School scored 7 points higher than Troy Craughwell School in ELA, while Craughwell scored 7 points higher in math.
Recent changes are mixed: the group’s ELA average rose 5 points from 2024–25 to 2025–26, while its math average fell by 1 point; the state’s math result rose by 1 point. Jones’s SchoolDigger statewide percentile ranking rose from the 50th to the 67th percentile over three years, while rankings fell at Craughwell, Grand Prairie, and Heritage Trail. Context measures do not create a simple pattern: Jones had the lowest free/reduced-lunch-eligible share, 32% in 2024–25, while Craughwell had the highest, 54%, yet Craughwell’s math score was above the state result. All five schools had lower chronic absenteeism than the state in 2025–26, ranging from 8% at Jones to 16% at Thomas Jefferson.
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