Chicago crunched data from more than 1,700 public elementary, middle, and junior high schools in the Chicago area and ranked the best. At Chicago’s Leland Elementary School, every kindergarten ...

As construction of the Vancouver Innovation, Technology and Arts Elementary School came to a close last year, it’s no surprise the new building’s presence turned some heads.

Eight schools in the Kalamazoo area -- including two buildings each in Kalamazoo, Three Rivers and Bloomingdale school districts -- rank in the top 10 percent of elementary and middle schools ...