Summary:
ZIP code 60656 has four elementary schools: Dirksen, Garvy J, and Oriole Park serve through grade 8, while Beard serves PK–3. In 2025–26, the three schools with scores averaged 64% in ELA and 52% in math, compared with state results of 56% and 40%. Beard has no supplied test scores, so its academic performance cannot be compared. The clearest overall standout is Oriole Park, which led the tested schools in both All Grades subjects.
Oriole Park scored 75% in ELA and 62% in math, ahead of the other two schools’ averages of 58% and 47% by 17 and 15 percentage points. It also led ELA in every reported grade and math in four of six grades. Garvy had the highest grade 5 science result, at 63%, and led grade 6 math with 59%. Dirksen had the lowest All Grades results—52% in ELA and 46% in math—but its grade 3 math score of 67% was the best among the three. All three schools exceeded state results in math and both reported science grades; Dirksen was the exception in ELA, scoring 52% against the state’s 56%.
Recent results show different trends by school and subject: from 2024–25 to 2025–26, ELA rose 6 points at Garvy, 5 at Oriole Park, and 1 at Dirksen; math rose 4 points at Garvy and 1 at Oriole Park, but fell 4 at Dirksen. SchoolDigger’s statewide percentile rankings did not move in lockstep with test scores: Garvy’s shifted from 70 to 64 and Oriole Park’s from 83 to 82 even as both schools’ scores rose. For context, 2024–25 free/reduced lunch eligible shares were 76% at Dirksen, 36% at Garvy, and 25% at Oriole Park; student-teacher ratios were 16.7, 15.1, and 13.1, respectively. These figures describe differences among the schools, not reasons for their results.
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