Center Street Elem School

As a small middle-grades school in Fairfield, Illinois, Center Street Elem School works with 296 students from grades 4 through 8, overseen by Fairfield PSD 112. Enrollment runs roughly 36% below the state mean of about 462.

Across the 2 schools in Fairfield PSD 112 (617 students total), Center Street Elem School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Center Street Elem School shows that nearly all students (89%) are White. The remainder breaks down as 5% multiracial, 4% Hispanic.

On the resource side, Center Street Elem School lists 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.5:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 67% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Wayne County runs at roughly 46%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Center Street Elem School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 32.7%, the actual is 41.7%, a residual of +9.0 points.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Wayne County indicate median household income runs about $55,521, roughly 16% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. Across Wayne County's 12 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,404 students), Center Street Elem School is one campus in the mix.

Fairfield Comm High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 5 other public schools cluster around Center Street Elem School. On composite proficiency, Center Street Elem School comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 49.6%.

Center Street Elem School operates from a town-based location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 5%: 313 students in 2018 compared to 296 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share climbed from 0% to 4%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 14.9:1 in 2018 to 12.5:1 today.

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