Prairieview-Ogden Junior High receives exemplary status on Illinois Report Card

For the fourth time in five years, Prairieview-Ogden Junior High School School District has been recognized as one of the best in the state by the Illinois State Board of Education, which produces the Illinois Report Card. 

The district’s two elementary schools received “commendable” status.

The 2023 Report Card is based on data collected in the fall of 2022. 

The report shows that chronic absenteeism, meaning students who miss 10-percent or more of school with or without a valid excuse, is at 6-percent. 

The district spends roughly $13,000 per student enrolled. 

The Prairieview-Ogden School District is 96-percent adequately funded, receiving $2,855,810 of the needed $2,963,717 funds. 

The teacher retention rate, the 3-year average percentage of teachers returning to work at Prairiview-Ogden hit an all-time high of 94-percent. 

On average, teachers within the PV-O school district see a lower salary than their state-wide counterparts. This has held true at least since 2015.

The district had a total of 267 students. 

At the junior high level, 77-percent of students are proficient in ELA; 43-percent in math; and 39-percent in science. At Prairieview-Ogden North, 71-percent of students are proficient in ELA and 68-percent in math. At Prairieview-Ogden South, 29-percent of students are proficient in ELA and 28-percent in math.