Edison Park Elem School, Chicago IL

Original Research by School Decision on Edison Park Elem School

Edison Park Elementary School is a neighborhood school serving kindergarten through eighth grade on Chicago's North Side, in the 60631 zip code. The school enrolled a small student body across its grade span, with the highest concentrations in grades four and eight.

The school's student body is predominantly white, with a meaningful Hispanic enrollment and smaller Asian, multiracial, and Black populations. The school did not report free-or-reduced-price lunch counts or English learner and special education enrollment figures, so those demographics are not available here.

In the 2024–25 school year, Edison Park's test results in English language arts and math show uneven performance across grades. In ELA, the school showed stronger results in the middle grades: grade six and above demonstrated proficiency approaching three-quarters, while grades three and four fell into the low to mid-60s range. Grade eight's ELA results stood out as the strongest among tested grades. Math performance was noticeably weaker. Grade three performed respectably, but grade four dropped sharply, and performance remained below the midpoint through the middle grades, with only grade seven reaching just above half. Grade eight's math results fell back into the mid-40s. Science results, available only for grades five and eight, showed just over half proficient in fifth grade and approaching half in eighth grade.

Across all tested subjects and grades, Edison Park's overall proficiency index places the school above the midpoint when compared to districts in Cook County. This positions the school as performing better than average across its county, even though several individual grade-subject combinations show weaker absolute results. The school maintained high test participation rates, well above 90 percent in most cases and perfect in several grade-subject pairs.

The neighborhood surrounding the school is part of Chicago's dense, mixed residential landscape. Housing values in the 60631 area show steady appreciation. Median monthly rent falls in a range consistent with city-wide demand, and the local real estate market shows moderate supply and modest demand by recent national comparison standards. The surrounding area supports walkable street life through Chicago's transit network and neighborhood commercial corridors, though like much of the city, the immediate school neighborhood reflects residential scale rather than downtown intensity.

Edison Park feeds into the Chicago Public Schools system, which is undergoing significant structural change. The district adopted a strategic plan in 2024 that emphasizes strengthening neighborhood schools and has moved away from choice-based enrollment policies. The school board itself transitioned from mayoral appointment to hybrid election in 2024 and will become fully elected in 2026, reshaping governance in a way that gives parents direct input. The district also rolled out Skyline, a new PreK-12 curriculum across core subjects available at no cost to schools, standardizing instructional resources across the system for the first time in district history and replacing an era when schools sourced materials independently.

For families considering Edison Park, the school offers a neighborhood-based, mixed-grade elementary-through-middle pathway in a walkable Chicago community with growing housing demand. ELA results are the relative strength, particularly in the upper grades, while math results across grades four through eight merit closer attention from a parent perspective. The school's position above county average on overall proficiency suggests it holds its ground academically, though the grade-by-grade pattern shows particular brittleness in upper-elementary math that a parent may want to discuss directly with school staff regarding support structures and instructional approach.

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Academic performance

How students perform on state tests, by grade, set against the district.

Math

Grade 365%

School 65% · District 38% · ▲ 27 pts above district

▲ 19 pts above state median · ▲ 26 pts above county median

Grade 437%

School 37% · District 29% · ▲ 8 pts above district

even with state median · ▲ 8 pts above county median

Grade 550%

School 50% · District 24% · ▲ 26 pts above district

▲ 20 pts above state median · ▲ 29 pts above county median

Grade 646%

School 46% · District 23% · ▲ 23 pts above district

▲ 22 pts above state median · ▲ 28 pts above county median

Grade 755%

School 55% · District 27% · ▲ 28 pts above district

▲ 27 pts above state median · ▲ 34 pts above county median

Grade 846%

School 46% · District 23% · ▲ 22 pts above district

▲ 23 pts above state median · ▲ 28 pts above county median

English language arts

Grade 367%

School 67% · District 36% · ▲ 30 pts above district

▲ 23 pts above state median · ▲ 30 pts above county median

Grade 461%

School 61% · District 39% · ▲ 22 pts above district

▲ 13 pts above state median · ▲ 21 pts above county median

Grade 570%

School 70% · District 43% · ▲ 28 pts above district

▲ 18 pts above state median · ▲ 25 pts above county median

Grade 680%

School 80% · District 45% · ▲ 35 pts above district

▲ 29 pts above state median · ▲ 37 pts above county median

Grade 779%

School 79% · District 46% · ▲ 33 pts above district

▲ 28 pts above state median · ▲ 34 pts above county median

Grade 883%

School 83% · District 48% · ▲ 35 pts above district

▲ 29 pts above state median · ▲ 36 pts above county median

Science

Grade 556%

School 56% · District 29% · ▲ 27 pts above district

▲ 19 pts above state median · ▲ 29 pts above county median

Grade 849%

School 49% · District 31% · ▲ 18 pts above district

▲ 9 pts above state median · ▲ 22 pts above county median

This schoolChicago Public Schools Dist 299, same grade

Graduation rate (ACGR) reflects the federally published Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate for the most recent year available. We refresh this data annually at the close of each academic year in June. The federal source publishes a banded rate (for example, "90-94%") instead of an exact number for cohorts small enough to risk identifying individual students. The state distribution chart, where shown, plots every school in the state with a published rate or band; schools whose rate is federally suppressed are excluded. Where the federal source publishes a band rather than an exact rate, the school is placed within its band using a stable, ID-derived offset, so its position is consistent across visits.