Coffeen Early Childhood Center

Coffeen Early Childhood Center is a micro-enrollment elementary school in Coffeen, Illinois, part of Hillsboro CUSD 3. The school enrolls 139 students in grade pre-K. By comparison, Illinois's public schools average about 381 students each, so Coffeen Early Childhood Center sits 64% smaller than that benchmark.

Hillsboro CUSD 3 comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 1,518 students; Coffeen Early Childhood Center is among them.

Looking at the student body, Coffeen Early Childhood Center reports that 94% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder looks like 2% Black, 2% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Montgomery County as a whole.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 5 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 27.8:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 13.9:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Montgomery County shows the typical household earns roughly $63,620 per year, roughly 18% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Montgomery County's 19 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,835 students), Coffeen Early Childhood Center is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Hillsboro High School, around 6.9 miles off. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint.

The campus sits in a countryside setting.

In the discussion threads here, posts here usually surface around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.