Summary:
Zip code 60561 has four elementary schools enrolling 1,700 students altogether: Concord Elementary School serves PK–4, Mark DeLay School and Elizabeth Ide Elementary School serve PK–2, and Lace Elementary School serves grades 3–5. Only Concord and Lace have reported 2025–26 test scores, so academic comparisons are not available for the other two schools. The strongest takeaway is that Concord leads the reported schools in both subjects—70% in ELA and 70% in math, versus Lace’s 63% and 55%—and both are above state results.
Concord stands out for its all-grades scores: its ELA result is 14 percentage points above the state, and its math result is 31 points above. Lace has a sharper grade-level contrast: its grade-3 ELA score is 45%, below the state’s 48%, while its grade-5 results reach 76% in ELA, 58% in math, and 70% in science. For context, SchoolDigger ranks Concord 277th of 1,737 schools, at the 84th percentile with 4 stars; Lace ranks 550th, at the 68th percentile with 3 stars.
Recent score changes are mixed: from 2024–25 to 2025–26, Concord’s ELA rose 2 points and Lace’s rose 1, while the state rose 3; in math, Concord rose 1 point, Lace fell 3, and the state rose 1. Lace’s grade-5 science score is a notable exception, increasing 28 points to 70%, while the state rose 7 points to 48%. SchoolDigger’s percentile rankings also declined from 2023–24 to 2025–26: 4 points for Concord and 11 for Lace. As context, 2024–25 free/reduced lunch eligible shares were 22% at Concord, 31% at Lace, 34% at Mark DeLay, and 16% at Elizabeth Ide; student-teacher ratios ranged from 10.9 at Lace to 17 at Elizabeth Ide.
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