Argenta-Oreana Elementary School

Argenta-Oreana Elementary School operates as a reasonably sized elementary school in Oreana, Illinois, run under Argenta-Oreana CUSD 1. Current enrollment sits at 445 students spanning grades pre-K through 5.

Argenta-Oreana CUSD 1 comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 893 students; Argenta-Oreana Elementary School is among them.

In terms of who attends, Argenta-Oreana Elementary School reports that the student body is overwhelmingly White (85%); the rest reads as 8% multiracial, 4% Black. The wider county runs roughly 74% White, putting the school's mix visibly more White than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, The school reports having 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.9:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 53% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Macon County runs at roughly 61%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Argenta-Oreana Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 40.6% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 44.6%.

In the broader community, census data for Macon County shows median household income runs about $62,666, 24% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. In all, Macon County runs 43 public schools (combined enrollment of about 14,702 students), of which Argenta-Oreana Elementary School is one.

Maroa-Forsyth Grade School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 3.7 miles from this campus. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Argenta-Oreana Elementary School comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 23.3%.

Argenta-Oreana Elementary School operates from a countryside location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Argenta-Oreana Elementary School has shrank 8%, going from 482 students in 2018 to 445 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 6% to 2% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 15.7:1 in 2018 to 13.9:1 in 2025.

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