Glen Grove Elem School, Glenview IL

Original Research by School Decision on Glen Grove Elem School

Glen Grove Elementary School is a small, regular public elementary serving grades three through five in Glenview, a suburban North Shore community north of Chicago. The school sits within Glenview CCSD 34, a district that has recently weathered fiscal headwinds after voters rejected an operating rate referendum in November 2024.

Academic performance at Glen Grove is solid and uneven by grade and subject. In English language arts, the school shows particular strength in the upper grades. Fourth-graders demonstrate proficiency across the cohort, while fifth-graders perform at an even higher level, exceeding that mark. Third-grade performance in ELA matches fourth-grade math proficiency. In mathematics, the pattern inverts: fourth-graders show the strongest results, fifth-graders fall below them, and third-graders come in lower still. Science results, reported only for fifth grade, sit at a moderate proficiency level. When those tested proficiencies are averaged across subjects and grades, Glen Grove ranks in the top quartile relative to districts in Cook County, a meaningful position that reflects broad competency rather than excellence in any single domain.

The school's enrollment is moderate in size for its grade band, distributed fairly evenly across the three grades served. Demographically, the student body is racially and ethnically diverse. White and Asian students together represent the largest shares of enrollment, while Hispanic, multiracial, and Black students are also meaningfully present. Specific data on students living in poverty, English learners, or those receiving special education were not available.

Illinois changed its proficiency cut scores for state assessments in the year of this data, so direct year-to-year trend comparison is not safe. One important gap: because Glen Grove serves only grades three through five, it has no graduation rate and no secondary outcome data to report.

The fiscal context deserves attention. The district's failed referendum means budget cuts are coming. Parents should look into what those cuts mean for Glen Grove's specific staffing, programming, and instructional resources. The district did successfully pass a capital bond in 2020 and has since launched full-day kindergarten as an option and undertaken building improvements across all schools, so infrastructure and early childhood access are recent strengths. But operational funding pressure is real and recent, and the school's academic profile should be weighed alongside that uncertainty.

Glenview itself is a stable, prosperous residential community built around two commercial centers and home to major corporate employers. Home values have appreciated modestly year over year, and the housing market remains active. Schools are dispersed across residential neighborhoods rather than anchored downtown. The community offers strong parks, a notable public library, and civic institutions including the Kohl Children's Museum. If you live in Glenview or are considering it, Glen Grove offers solid elementary academics in a resource-constrained near term, serving a diverse peer group within a family-oriented suburb.

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Academic performance

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

Math

Grade 370%

School 70% · District 72% · ▼ 2 pts below district

▲ 24 pts above state median · ▲ 31 pts above county median

Grade 480%

School 80% · District 70% · ▲ 10 pts above district

▲ 43 pts above state median · ▲ 51 pts above county median

Grade 568%

School 68% · District 67%

▲ 38 pts above state median · ▲ 46 pts above county median

English language arts

Grade 370%

School 70% · District 67% · ▲ 3 pts above district

▲ 26 pts above state median · ▲ 33 pts above county median

Grade 489%

School 89% · District 81% · ▲ 8 pts above district

▲ 41 pts above state median · ▲ 49 pts above county median

Grade 587%

School 87% · District 81% · ▲ 6 pts above district

▲ 35 pts above state median · ▲ 41 pts above county median

Science

Grade 574%

School 74% · District 73% · ▲ 1 pts above district

▲ 37 pts above state median · ▲ 47 pts above county median

This schoolGlenview CCSD 34, 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.