The district serves the following places in Cook County: Summit, Bedford Park, and a section of Bridgeview.
[2] The district lies due west of the city of Chicago near the Cook County-DuPage County line.
[3] Students may begin their education as prekindergarteners in Otis Graves Elementary School, which educate students in prekindergarten, kindergarten, and grades one through four.
Those who graduate from the fourth grade in Graves, Walker, and Walsh Elementary Schools then spend their fifth grade in Wharton Elementary School.
It was later renamed for principal Dr. Donald Wharton, who directed the school in the 1970s.