The top reported proficiency rate is 65% in English language arts. The lowest is 54% in Math.
Original Research by School Decision on Prairieview School
Prairieview School is a kindergarten-through-fourth-grade elementary school in Hainesville, a small residential village in Lake County just north of Grayslake. The school serves a student body of about four hundred students in a community where roughly half are white, about a third are Hispanic, and the remainder split among Asian, Black, and multiracial students. Free-or-reduced-price lunch data was not available, so the socioeconomic profile cannot be fully characterized from the data on hand.
The school's academic performance, measured by state proficiency tests in math and English language arts, shows mixed results by grade. Third-grade students performed better than fourth-graders: in third grade, roughly three-fifths of students reached proficiency in math and about two-thirds in English language arts. Fourth grade saw a sharper dip, with fewer than half meeting math proficiency and about the same proportion as third grade in reading. The school's overall proficiency index places it above the midpoint among districts across Lake County. Testing data for fifth and sixth grade are not reported because Prairieview serves only through fourth grade; students move on to other Grayslake CCSD 46 schools for middle grades.
Hainesville itself is a quiet, predominantly residential village that grew rapidly from farmland in the 1990s and 2000s. It has little commercial life or employment base within the village limits; residents rely on nearby Grayslake and Round Lake for shopping, dining, and amenities. The housing market reflects suburban sprawl of that era: homes built largely in the late 1990s and early 2000s, with median home values in the mid-range for Lake County. Rents and purchase prices have risen in recent years, with the housing market showing modest supply and below-midpoint demand compared to the broader county. Affordability is moderate for the region; a household earning the national median income would spend roughly a third of income on rent.
Prairieview School itself opened to serve the wave of new families that arrived during that growth period. It sits on a suburban campus in a neighborhood setting rather than as part of a village downtown. The school is a regular public school, not a charter, and operates as part of Grayslake Community Consolidated School District 46.
An important change is coming: beginning in the 2026-2027 school year, the district is launching a new Two-Way Dual Language Program (Spanish and English) with balanced cohorts of English- and Spanish-speaking students, opening at both Avon Center School and Prairieview School. Families interested in that pathway should know it will be available for new kindergarteners entering the program; transportation will be provided to selected students whose home school is not Avon or Prairieview.
At the district level, voters passed a limiting rate referendum in March 2024 ("Maintaining Excellence") designed to fund capital repairs, safety improvements, teacher retention, and program maintenance. Because long-term debt payoff is scheduled for 2025, the net effect will be a modest reduction in the overall tax rate, a detail that matters to families evaluating the housing and tax burden of the community.
The school's test score pattern, with stronger third-grade and weaker fourth-grade performance, warrants closer conversation with the school itself about curriculum progression, support structures, and any underlying factors. Parents may want to ask how the school addresses the fourth-grade performance dip and what intervention or enrichment pathways are available for students working below grade level.
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