Welcome to East Prairie!

Welcome To East Prairie School District

East Prairie School once stood as a small schoolhouse with less than 100 children in the area. We now house over 550 students enrolled in grades preK-8. Academic excellence is achieved with strong emphasis on Language Arts, Math, Science, Social Studies, Music, Art, Foreign Language and our STEM Program.

EPS Ranks High In Chicago Parent Magazine

School Hours

K - 3rd grades
8:30 a.m - 3:00 p.m.
4th - 8th grades
8:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.
(Late start on Wednesdays at 8:45 a.m. for all grades)

News:
Please view our Year in Review below:
East Prairie 2022-23 Year in Review.pdf

News

Here is a brief video showcasing our band program and the amazing talents of our 4th-8th grade musicians. Thank you to Mr. Berlinghof for leading such a phenomenal program. Thank you to Mr. Abraham for the artistic genius in putting together all of our videos.

East Prairie operates as a Professional Learning Community (PLC). A PLC is educators committed to working collaboratively in ongoing processes of collective inquiry and action research to achieve better results for the students they serve. PLCs operate under the assumption that the key to improved learning for students is continuous, job-embedded learning for educators. Watch to learn more about our work.

ENR magazine rated the East Prairie building project top educational project in the midwest. Our grand opening celebrated the amazing community accomplishment that was this building's construction. View some highlights from this special event in this video.

East Prairie offers incredible learning opportunities to its youngest students. Students experience hands-on learning activities and are supported through physical and social-emotional development by our extraordinary certified prekindergarten teachers. To learn more about our prekindergarten programming, please watch the video above.