Looking for information about local schools and daycares? Curious as to what the PAARC, Common Core, or Fountas-Pinnell programs are that the schools are using? We've got you covered.
School & Daycare Listings | Common Core | PARCC | Fountas-Pinnell
School & Daycare Listings
Elmwood Park Public Library is proud to work with and serve the surrounding schools and daycare centers in the area. We also have more information about parent/teacher organizations and student activities on our Community Corner page.
EPCUSD 401
- ECC/Early Childhood Center
Serving: Pre-School & Kindergarten
Address: 4 Conti Parkway, Elmwood Park IL 60707
Phone: 708.583.5860 - Elmwood Elementary School
Serving: 1st – 6th grade
Address: 2319 North 76th Avenue, Elmwood Park IL 60707
Phone: 708.452.3558 - John Mills Elementary School
Serving: 1st – 6th grade
Address: 2824 North 76th Avenue, Elmwood Park IL 60707
Phone: 708.452.3560 - Elm Middle School
Serving: 6th – 8th grade
Address: 7607 West Cortland, Elmwood Park IL 60707
Phone: 708.452.3550 - Elmwood Park High School
Serving: 9th – 12th grade
Address: 8201 W Fullerton Ave., Elmwood Park IL 60707
Phone: 708.452.7272
Catholic & Lutheran Schools
- St. Celestine Catholic School
Serving: Pre-School – 8th grade
Address: 3017 North 77th Avenue, Elmwood Park, Illinois 60707
Phone: 708.453.8234 - St. Vincent Ferrer School
Serving: Pre-School – 8th grade
Address: 1515 N. Lathrop Avenue, River Forest, Illinois 60305
Phone: 708.771.5905 - St. Cyprian Catholic School
Serving: Kindergarten – 8th grade
Address: 2561 Clinton Street, River Grove, IL 60171
Phone: 708.453.6300 - Grace Lutheran Church & School
Serving: Pre-School – 8th grade
Address: 7300 West Division, River Forest, Illinois 60305
Phone: 708.366.6900 - Trinity High School
Serving: 9th – 12th grade, all girls
Address: 7574 West Division Street, River Forest, Illinois 60305
Phone: 708.771.8383 - Guerin Prep
Serving: 9th – 12th grade
Address: 8001 W. Belmont Ave., River Grove, IL 60171
Phone: 708.453.6233
Daycare & Learning Centers
- A-Karrasel Academy
Serving: Infants - Kindergarten
Address: 7801 W Grand Ave, Elmwood Park, IL 60707
Phone: 708.452.7666 - Kiddie Korner Academy
Serving: Ages 6 weeks - 6 years old
Address: 7730 W. North Avenue, Elmwood Park, IL 60707
Phone: 708.456.5628 - Little Newtons
Serving: Ages 6 weeks - 5 years old
Address: 1850 N. Harlem Avenue, Elmwood Park, IL 607007
Phone: 708.395.5590 - Picket Fence Day Care & Learning Center
Serving: Ages 15 months - 12 years old
Address: 36 Conti Parkway, Elmwood Park, IL 60707
Phone: 708.452.4544
Common Core
The Elmwood Park Community Unit School District 401 follows the Common Core State Standards of Illinois.
What is it?
Today’s students are preparing to enter a world in which colleges and businesses are demanding more than ever before. To ensure all students are ready for success after high school, the Common Core State Standards establish clear, consistent guidelines for what every student should know and be able to do in math and English language arts from kindergarten through 12th grade.
The standards were drafted by experts and teachers from across the country and are designed to ensure students are prepared for today’s entry-level careers, freshman-level college courses, and workforce training programs. The Common Core focuses on developing the critical-thinking, problem-solving, and analytical skills students will need to be successful. Over forty states have voluntarily adopted and are moving forward with the standards.
The new standards also provide a way for teachers to measure student progress throughout the school year and ensure that students are on the pathway to success in their academic careers.
(from corestandards.org/what-parents-should-know/)
For more information:
- Illinois State Board of Education - Common Core Standards and resources for Illinois
Illinois Common Core | Parent Resources - Common Core State Standards Initiative - Learn the purpose and standards of this program
Main Site | Read the Standards
PARCC (Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers)
What is it?
In recent years, many states have adopted new, more rigorous academic standards, and teachers have been using them since then in their daily instruction. As a result, states needed high-quality assessments aligned to those standards that would test students of all achievement levels on what they are learning. These are the PARCC Tests.
The PARCC assessment system is made up of two categories of tools:
- Annual year-end tests in English language arts/literacy, and mathematics tests in grades 3-8 and high school; and
- Instructional tools that teachers may use at their discretion anytime during the school year. These include formative tasks for grades K-2, 3-8, and high school; diagnostic tools; and speaking and listening tools; and performance-based modules.
Visit the PARCC Test website to learn more about the use of the tests and how to assess your child’s scores, or visit their Practice Tests page, broken down by subject and grade level, to try a practice test.
Library Resources
We are happy to offer use of our PARCC Practice Test Books within the Library. They can be found in our J Reference section under the call # of J Ref 371.262:
- Common Core Assessments And Online Workbooks: PARCC 2016 Practice Tests
- Mathematics
- Grade 3
- Grade 4
- Grade 5
- Grade 6
- Grade 7
- Grade 8
- English Language Arts
- Grade 3
- Grade 4
- Grade 5
- Grade 6
- Grade 7
- Grade 8
- Mathematics
Within each PARCC Practice Test book is a page dedicated to ‘How to Access the Lumos Online Workbooks,’ and use of the ‘Lumos StepUp Mobile App.’ These two products are further extensions of the PARCC Practice Test books that you can use with your student at home at your leisure.
Because these books are for use in the Library only, you may feel free to use them to read and take notes, and we will make copies for your use at home.
In addition, on our Test Prep page you can access other test prep resources, as well as Tutor.com - a database that offers tests, practice work, and live tutoring separated by grade and subject level. You can access any of these databases in the Library though one of our computers, or at home by logging in with your Library Card number.
