Clinton Elem School

Clinton Elem School, a moderately sized K-5 school in Clinton, Illinois, one of the schools within Clinton CUSD 15, enrolls 506 students, covering grades 2 through 5. Compared to the state average of about 381 students per school, that is 33% bigger than typical.

Clinton Elem School is one of 5 schools operated by Clinton CUSD 15, a district that educates 1,765 students overall.

Demographically, Clinton Elem School shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (84%). The remainder comes out to 9% Hispanic, 6% multiracial. By comparison, De Witt County as a whole is about 93% White, so the school skews noticeably less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, The school reports having 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.3:1. The state averages around 13.9:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 54% of students at Clinton Elem School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Clinton Elem School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 40.5% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 47.5%.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (De Witt County) logs that median household earnings sit near $71,678, about 23% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Across De Witt County's 7 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,185 students), Clinton Elem School is one campus in the mix.

Clinton Jr High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Clinton Elem School comes 4th of 7 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 46.3%.

Clinton Elem School operates from a town-based location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Clinton Elem School's enrollment has held roughly steady since 2018, when it stood at 516 (now 506). Class-load math has tightened: from 13.8:1 in 2018 to 12.3:1 in 2025.

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