Central Elementary School

Central Elementary School is one of the low-enrollment K-5 schools in Camp Point, Illinois, operated by Central CUSD 3, with 227 students on its rolls from grades 1 through 4. By comparison, Illinois's public schools average about 381 students each, so Central Elementary School sits 40% below that benchmark.

Central Elementary School is one of 4 schools operated by Central CUSD 3, a district that educates 743 students overall.

On demographics, Central Elementary School records that 94% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder reads as 4% multiracial, 2% Hispanic. That composition is broadly in line with Adams County as a whole.

On the income-and-resources front, Central Elementary School shows 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.9:1, putting Central Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 44% of students at Central Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Adams County (around 56%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Central Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 46.3%; this one delivers 46.2%.

In the area at large, Adams County reports that median household income runs about $66,220, roughly 28% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Central Elementary School is one of 23 public schools in Adams County (combined enrollment of about 8,717 students).

Central Junior High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 2.4 miles from this campus. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Central Elementary School comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 47.1%.

The school occupies an outlying site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked up 69%: 134 students in 2018 compared to 227 in 2025. Class-load math has narrowed: from 12.2:1 in 2018 to 10.8:1 in 2025.

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