Chrisman Elem School

Located at 111 N Pennsylvania St, in Chrisman, Illinois, Chrisman Elem School is a minimally staffed K-5 school that works with 120 students (grades pre-K through 5), operated by Edgar County CUD 6. Enrollment runs roughly 69% below the state mean of about 381.

Edgar County CUD 6 runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 267 students. Chrisman Elem School is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Chrisman Elem School logs that nearly all students (96%) are White. The remainder breaks down as 3% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Edgar County as a whole.

On the income-and-resources front, Chrisman Elem School lists 11 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.9:1 average. Roughly 31% of students at Chrisman Elem School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Edgar County (around 55%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Chrisman Elem School is in the bottom 10% of Illinois public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 53.7%; Chrisman Elem School posts 36.1%, -17.6 points below that line.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Edgar County indicate median household earnings sit near $59,941, roughly 20% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. In all, Edgar County runs 19 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,650 students), of which Chrisman Elem School is one.

Chrisman High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Chrisman Elem School. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Chrisman Elem School ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 29.3%.

Chrisman Elem School operates from an outlying location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 14%: 139 students in 2018 compared to 120 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 12.2:1 in 2018 to 10.4:1 today.

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