The top reported proficiency rate is 64% in English language arts. The lowest is 51% in Science.
Original Research by School Decision on Park View Elem School
Park View Elementary is a small school serving kindergarten through fifth grade in Lombard, a residential DuPage County village about twenty miles west of Chicago. The school enrolls a small student body with enrollment distributed fairly evenly across grades, and the community is predominantly white, with meaningful shares of Asian and Hispanic families also represented.
On the most recent state assessments, Park View shows a mixed but readable picture. In third grade, reading and math proficiency both sit at just over three in five students reaching the proficient level or above. Fourth grade improves notably, with math climbing to just under four in five and reading to nearly four in five. Fifth grade represents a significant drop: math proficiency falls to just over one in three, and reading to half of students. Science proficiency in fifth grade stands at just over half. Performance in the earlier grades suggests the school is establishing skills, but the fifth-grade decline warrants direct conversation with school staff about the transition, curriculum emphasis, assessment conditions, or student composition in that grade. All students tested participated in assessments.
Grade six and above do not appear in the data because Park View serves only through fifth grade; middle grades are served by Glenn Westlake in the district.
Among elementary schools in DuPage County that have comparable proficiency data, Park View's overall proficiency index falls below the county midpoint, positioning it below the median performance in the region. This is useful context but does not tell the whole story of what the school offers or what kind of learner environment it is, since elementary performance data alone does not capture program breadth, school culture, or support systems.
Lombard itself is a village with a distinct civic core centered on its historic downtown, Lilacia Park, and the commuter rail station, but also a sprawling residential and commercial periphery organized around shopping corridors and arterial roads. The historic district is walkable and maintains a small-town character; away from that center, the village is car-dependent suburban. Major employers include Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital, the retail and hospitality complex at Yorktown Center, and two higher-education institutions. Housing values in the area have appreciated modestly, and the village is currently undergoing selective infill development, including new luxury multifamily housing at Yorktown and higher-end single-family infill projects.
The district itself, Lombard SD 44, has made two notable programmatic changes recently: it introduced full-day kindergarten starting in 2022-23, replacing a half-day model, which reshapes early-childhood logistics and instructional time; and it opened the Connect 44 Center integrated with Glenn Westlake Middle School, adding STEAM labs, a field house with multi-sport courts, and turf facilities that enrich middle school learning and community access. Neither change directly affects Park View, but they signal the district's investment in modernizing facilities and expanding instructional space.
For families considering Park View, the school's principal appeal lies in its size and neighborhood character in a stable, moderately affluent residential community. The fifth-grade proficiency data dip is a legitimate question to explore directly with the school before enrolling. A parent or resident may want to look into this further with the school to understand whether the drop reflects grade-level curriculum design, assessment timing, cohort-specific factors, or other drivers, and what instructional support the school offers to students working below proficiency. The school serves a community where housing is appreciating and where young families are present, and families living in or near Lombard and selecting a neighborhood school will want to understand both the school's instructional track record and its role within the broader elementary pathways the district offers.
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