Arcola Elementary School

Arcola Elementary School is one of the mid-sized elementary-level communitys in Arcola, Illinois, run under Arcola CUSD 306, with 410 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 6.

Within Arcola CUSD 306, which oversees 2 schools and 709 students, Arcola Elementary School is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Arcola Elementary School records that the largest single group is Hispanic at 50%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder breaks down as 46% White. The wider county runs roughly 9% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Arcola Elementary School has 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.9:1, putting Arcola Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 46% of students at Arcola Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Arcola Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 45.0%, the actual is 34.0%, a residual of -11.1 points.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Douglas County put the typical household earns roughly $77,320 per year, roughly 21% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. In all, Douglas County runs 10 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,780 students), of which Arcola Elementary School is one.

Arcola High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 6 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, Arcola Elementary School comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 41.4%.

The campus sits in a countryside setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count grew 10%: 372 students in 2018 compared to 410 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share ticked up from 45% to 50%. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 11.7:1 in 2018 to 13.1:1 today.

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