Coal City Intermediate School

As a small K-5 school in Coal City, Illinois, Coal City Intermediate School hosts 294 students from grades 4 through 5, run under Coal City CUSD 1. Enrollment runs roughly 23% below the state mean of about 381.

Coal City CUSD 1 runs 5 schools in total, collectively educating 2,129 students. Coal City Intermediate School is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Coal City Intermediate School logs that nearly all students (82%) are White; the rest breaks down as 13% Hispanic, 2% multiracial.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school currently runs with 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.7:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.9:1 average. About 33% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Coal City Intermediate School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 52.7%, the actual is 62.0%, a residual of +9.4 points.

In the surrounding community, Grundy County reports that median household income runs about $92,235, roughly 24% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Grundy County runs 28 public schools (combined enrollment of about 12,070 students), of which Coal City Intermediate School is one.

Coal City Elem School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Coal City Intermediate School. On composite proficiency, Coal City Intermediate School comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 47.4%.

The school occupies a town-based site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count changed only slightly: 300 students in 2018 compared to 294 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 90% to 82% across the same window.

Within the allk12 community for this school, recent activity here tends to focus on sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.