Cantrall Elem School

Located at 1 Braves Ln, in Cantrall, Illinois, Cantrall Elem School is a middle-of-the-pack elementary campus that instructs 334 students (grades pre-K through 3), part of Athens CUSD 213.

Within Athens CUSD 213, which oversees 4 schools and 961 students, Cantrall Elem School is one campus in the system.

Demographically, Cantrall Elem School shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (90%). The remainder is composed of 8% multiracial. That is noticeably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 78%.

In terms of school funding signals, Cantrall Elem School records 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.2:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.9:1 average. Roughly 35% of students at Cantrall Elem School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Sangamon County (around 48%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

With demographic context factored in, Cantrall Elem School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 51.1%; this one delivers 63.2%.

In the surrounding community, Sangamon County reports that the typical household earns roughly $75,357 per year, about 37% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Cantrall Elem School is one of 77 public schools in Sangamon County (combined enrollment of about 27,345 students).

Cantrall Intermediate School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Cantrall Elem School ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 47.4%.

Cantrall Elem School operates from a small-town location.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 15%: 391 students in 2018 compared to 334 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 18.6:1 in 2018 to 13.2:1 today.

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