Bernard Long Elem Sch

Bernard Long Elem Sch, a middle-of-the-pack elementary school in Madison, Illinois, one of the schools within Madison CUSD 12, serves 337 students, covering grades pre-K through 5.

Madison CUSD 12 comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 613 students; Bernard Long Elem Sch is among them.

On the student-mix side, Bernard Long Elem Sch logs that nearly all students (92%) are Black; the rest looks like 5% Hispanic, 3% White. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 8%.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.2:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.9:1, putting Bernard Long Elem Sch tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 98% of students at Bernard Long Elem Sch qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is north of Madison County's rate of about 46%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Bernard Long Elem Sch sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 14.8%; this one delivers 10.7%.

Around the school, Madison County reports that the typical household earns roughly $75,793 per year, 31% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Across Madison County's 84 public schools (combined enrollment of about 35,253 students), Bernard Long Elem Sch is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Madison Senior High School, roughly 0.3 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Bernard Long Elem Sch ranks 4th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 12.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Bernard Long Elem Sch has decreased 5%, going from 354 students in 2018 to 337 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 12.3:1 in 2018 to 11.2:1 in 2025.

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