Caledonia Elem School

Caledonia Elem School is one of the reasonably sized primary schools in Caledonia, Illinois, operated by Belvidere CUSD 100, with 449 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5.

Belvidere CUSD 100 comprises 10 schools with combined enrollment of 7,523 students; Caledonia Elem School is among them.

On the student-mix side, Caledonia Elem School lists that the largest single group is White, at 61% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school lists 32% Hispanic, 3% multiracial, 3% Black. By comparison, Boone County as a whole is about 72% White, so the school skews noticeably less White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.5:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 43% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Boone County runs at roughly 53%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Caledonia Elem School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 46.6%, the actual is 46.0%, a residual of -0.6 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Boone County indicate the typical household earns roughly $84,571 per year, about 24% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Caledonia Elem School is one of 17 public schools in Boone County (combined enrollment of about 8,993 students).

Nearest neighbor: Poplar Grove Elem School, around 3.7 miles off. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Caledonia Elem School comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 45.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.

Looking at the recent track record. Caledonia Elem School's enrollment has increased 29% since 2018, when it stood at 348 (now 449). Over the same period, the Hispanic share ticked up from 18% to 32%.

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