Carlyle Elementary School

Carlyle Elementary School, a mid-sized primary school in Carlyle, Illinois, one of the schools within Carlyle CUSD 1, teaches 364 students, covering grades pre-K through 4.

Carlyle CUSD 1 comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 926 students; Carlyle Elementary School is among them.

On the student-mix side, Carlyle Elementary School shows that 90% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school lists 5% multiracial, 3% Black. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school currently runs with 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.7:1. The state averages about 13.9:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 52% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably above Clinton County's rate of about 36%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Carlyle Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 41.2%, the actual is 51.1%, a residual of +9.9 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Clinton County indicate median household income runs about $86,588, roughly 26% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Clinton County runs 19 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,278 students), of which Carlyle Elementary School is one.

Carlyle High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around Carlyle Elementary School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Carlyle Elementary School at 6th of 8; the average score across the group is 60.8%.

The school occupies a rural site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 12%: 413 students in 2018 compared to 364 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 15.9:1 in 2018 to 13.7:1 today.

Within the allk12 community for this school, posts here usually surface around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.