Bradford Grade School

Bradford Grade School, a rural-scale elementary campus in Bradford, Illinois, overseen by Bradford CUSD 1, hosts 123 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 68% leaner than the state mean of about 381.

Bradford CUSD 1 runs 2 schools in total, collectively educating 168 students. Bradford Grade School is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Bradford Grade School logs that nearly all students (90%) are White. The remainder looks like 5% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. That composition is broadly in line with Stark County as a whole.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 9 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.4:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 52% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Bradford Grade School is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 41.5%; this one delivers 56.5%, a residual of +15.0 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Stark County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $62,878 per year, 21% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. In all, Stark County runs 5 public schools (combined enrollment of about 837 students), of which Bradford Grade School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Bradford Jr High School, around 0.1 miles off. On composite proficiency, Bradford Grade School comes 3rd of 7 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 52.0%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Bradford Grade School has increased 16%, going from 106 students in 2018 to 123 in 2025.

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