Oak Park, IL schools
Oak Park’s public schools score well above Illinois’s averages: 44% of students are proficient in reading against 30.7% statewide, and 94% of high schoolers graduate on time against 87.3%. Kids attend one of 8 elementary schools through grade 5, then Gwendolyn Brooks Middle School or Percy Julian Middle School and Oak Park & River Forest High Sch.
Grades, test scores, graduation, spending and every school, from U.S. Department of Education data.
Oak Park’s School Grade: A
The public schools Oak Park’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, outperform 89% of Illinois’s districts on state tests and graduation. Among towns with similar incomes, they rank near the top.
How the School Grade works
- Results, not inputs. Math and reading proficiency on Illinois’s state tests, each against the state average, plus the four-year graduation rate. Spending and class size are shown below but don’t count toward the grade. Tests: 2020–21; graduation: class of 2018.
- The whole path. A town’s grade follows its kids: every district that serves it, weighted by the number of students tested in each. Tests count 60% and graduation 40%.
- Graded within the state. Each state writes its own tests, so districts are lined up against the rest of Illinois only. A+ top 5%A next 10%A- next 10%B B+ to B−, next 30%C C+ to C−, next 30%D D and D−, bottom 15%
- Individual schools are graded the same way on their own test results, against every public school in Illinois with 25+ students. Private schools aren’t graded: they don’t take the state tests.
- What a grade can’t tell you. Test results track family income closely, so a high grade partly reflects who lives in a town. That’s why we also compare towns with similar incomes. Visit, ask other parents, and read neighbor reviews. It’s our own summary of U.S. Department of Education data, not an official rating.
Where Oak Park kids go to school
Based on district boundaries from the U.S. Department of Education. Check with the district before you enroll.
Well above the state in reading
94% graduate on time
The share of students who started ninth grade together and earned a regular diploma within four years.
Two districts serve Oak Park
Each district’s own page has its spending, test scores, enrollment and every school.
Colleges near Oak Park
There’s no college in Oak Park, but 40 colleges are within 30 miles. The closest is Concordia University-Chicago in River Forest, 1.3 miles away.
30 more within 30 miles.
Straight-line distance from the center of Oak Park. Degree-granting colleges with students on campus. Colleges marked › have their own page; the others are too small or don’t report enough to the Department of Education for one.
All 22 schools in Oak Park
School data from the U.S. Department of Education (NCES). Ratings are from neighbors on TownTapestry.