Calhoun Elementary/ Jr High Sch

Calhoun Elementary/ Jr High Sch is a K-5 school of middle-of-the-pack scale in Hardin, Illinois, operated by Calhoun CUSD 40, teacheing 336 students in grades pre-K through 8.

Calhoun Elementary/ Jr High Sch is one of 2 schools operated by Calhoun CUSD 40, a district that teaches 507 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Calhoun Elementary/ Jr High Sch lists that 95% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school logs 3% Hispanic. That composition is broadly in line with Calhoun County as a whole.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Calhoun Elementary/ Jr High Sch reports 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.2:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.9:1, putting Calhoun Elementary/ Jr High Sch tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 42% of students at Calhoun Elementary/ Jr High Sch qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Calhoun Elementary/ Jr High Sch performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 47.5%, the actual is 42.8%, a residual of -4.7 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Calhoun County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $93,203 per year, roughly 20% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Across Calhoun County's 4 public schools (combined enrollment of about 616 students), Calhoun Elementary/ Jr High Sch is one campus in the mix.

Calhoun High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Within ten miles, there are 4 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Calhoun Elementary/ Jr High Sch at 4th of 8; the average score across the group is 45.1%.

The school occupies a low-density site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count climbed 3%: 327 students in 2018 compared to 336 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 13.6:1 in 2018 to 11.2:1 today.

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