Summary:
Zip code 60633 has three elementary schools serving through grade 8: Clay and Grissom serve prekindergarten through grade 8, while Burnham serves kindergarten through grade 8; Clay and Grissom are in Chicago Public Schools District 299, and Burnham is in Burnham School District 154-5. In 2025–2026, the schools’ average proficiency was 44% in English language arts (ELA) and 18% in math, compared with state results of 56% and 40%; the biggest area-wide concern is math, where even the leading school was 14 points below the state.
Grissom Elementary School led in both all-grades subjects, with 57% proficient in ELA and 26% in math. Its lead over the next-highest school, Burnham, was 14 points in ELA and 10 points in math. Clay Elementary School had the lowest results, at 32% in ELA and 13% in math, while Burnham Elementary School scored 43% and 16%. Grade-level results show a notable strength for Burnham: its eighth-grade ELA proficiency was 71%, above the state’s 63%; Grissom was higher still at 85%, while Clay had 47%.
Recent changes were mixed: from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, ELA rose by 7 points at Burnham and 2 at Grissom but fell by 2 at Clay. Math rose by 7 points at Grissom and 1 at Clay, but fell by 4 at Burnham. SchoolDigger ranked Grissom at the 43rd statewide percentile and Clay at the 5th percentile in 2025–2026; Burnham’s latest listed ranking was the 32nd percentile in 2024–2025. In school year 2024–2025, free/reduced lunch eligible figures were 77% at Grissom, 82% at Clay and 95% at Burnham; student-teacher ratios were 12.4, 14.2 and 14.1, respectively. These are contextual observations, not explanations for the different results.
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