Brimfield Grade School

Brimfield Grade School is an elementary campus of reasonably sized scale in Brimfield, Illinois, run under Brimfield CUSD 309, enrolling 398 students in grades pre-K through 8.

Across the 2 schools in Brimfield CUSD 309 (587 students total), Brimfield Grade School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Brimfield Grade School shows that 95% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder comes out to 3% multiracial. By comparison, Peoria County as a whole is about 67% White, so the school skews noticeably more White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.8:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.9:1, putting Brimfield Grade School tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 18% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Peoria County runs at roughly 57%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Brimfield Grade School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 61.4%, the actual is 51.2%, a residual of -10.1 points.

In the broader community, Peoria County reports that median household income runs about $65,108, roughly 35% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Brimfield Grade School is one of 81 public schools in Peoria County (combined enrollment of about 27,827 students).

Nearest neighbor: Brimfield High School, around 0.1 miles off. Within ten miles, there are 8 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Brimfield Grade School ranks 6th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 51.6%.

The campus sits in a countryside setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 13%: 458 students in 2018 compared to 398 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 14.8:1 in 2018 to 12.8:1 today.

Within the allk12 community for this school, recent activity here tends to focus on sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.