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Enrollment
535
Elementary
DISTRICT 520 · STATE 381
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·QUINCY SD 172·NCES 173300005056
Colonel George Iles Elementary School
3111 N 12th St, Quincy, IL 62305 · (217) 222-4059 · Adams County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY33-TOWNTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL535 STUDENTS
B-
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Scored higher than 53% of Illinois public elementary schools
- B-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Illinois public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
13.4:1
40 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.8:1 · STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
69%
370 students
DISTRICT 64% · STATE 56%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 98 | 18% |
| Grade 1 | 83 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 76 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 102 | 19% |
| Grade 4 | 82 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 94 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (98) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (94).
Student demographics
52%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 43% · STATE 69% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Based on grade levels within Quincy SD 172. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
IAR + ISA 2024-25 . % Proficient (Levels 4-5)English Language Arts
44.8%
IL avg 51.0% . +11.7pp since 2023
Math
33.8%
IL avg 37.9% . +11.4pp since 2023
What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 45 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 34 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Illinois schools, those numbers are about 51 and 38. Reading and writing scores are up about 12 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 11 points.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 44.8% | 33.8% |
| 2023-24 | 33.1% | 22.4% |
% Proficient (Levels 4-5), all students and all tested grades.
Source: IAR + ISA. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
37.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
31.6%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+6.3pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 38% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 32% typical for Illinois schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Illinois's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Colonel George Iles Elementary School
Colonel George Iles Elementary School's state test result (37.8% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Colonel George Iles Elementary School this school | 535 | 69.2% | 37.8% |
| Dr. Abby Fox Rooney Elementary School Quincy | 500 | 67.2% | 34.1% |
| Lincoln Elementary School Marion | 482 | 66.6% | 59.0% |
| Ridge Lawn Elementary School Chicago Ridge | 572 | 70.3% | 27.6% |
| Thomas S Baldwin Elementary School Quincy | 564 | 64.7% | 36.5% |
| Bluffview Elementary School Dupo | 501 | 67.5% | 46.0% |
Matched among Illinois elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Colonel George Iles Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Illinois | In Adams County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 37.8% | #990 of 1,925 | #6 of 9 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 33.8% | #1,166 of 2,077 ▼ 76 | #7 of 9 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 44.8% | #1,191 of 2,077 ▼ 142 | #7 of 9 ▼ 3 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 535 | #417 of 2,419 | #3 of 11 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.4:1 | #1,020 of 2,035 | #5 of 10 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 51.6% | #863 of 2,042 | #1 of 10 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 69.2% | #757 of 2,132 | #2 of 10 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +153.6% | #2 of 615 | #1 of 7 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
535
-14 (-3%) vs 2020
+111% since 1990-91, when it was 254
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 535 | 40 | 13.4:1 | 69% (370) |
| 2023-24 | 508 | 39.8 | 12.8:1 | 71% (359) |
| 2022-23 | 519 | 38.7 | 13.4:1 | 72% (372) |
| 2020-21 | 549 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 211 | 19 | 11.1:1 | 67% (142) |
| 2015-16 | 255 | 18 | 14.2:1 | 71% (180) |
| 2010-11 | 238 | 17 | 14.0:1 | 76% (180) |
| 2000-01 | 187 | 16 | 11.7:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 254 | 18 | 14.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Colonel George Iles Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 154% (211 to 535); teachers up 111% (19 to 40).
About Colonel George Iles Elementary School
Colonel George Iles Elementary School is a public mid-sized elementary school in Quincy, Illinois. Enrollment totals 535 students across kindergarten through 5. On average, elementary schools in Illinois enroll around 381, and this school is 40% larger than that mark.
Colonel George Iles Elementary School falls under Quincy SD 172, which has 8 schools enrolling 6,264 students.
More than half of the students at Colonel George Iles Elementary School are White (66%). The remaining shares are 19% multiracial, 9% Black, and 5% Hispanic. Census estimates put the White share of Adams County's population at about 91%. The diversity index for Colonel George Iles Elementary School is 52%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
The student-to-teacher ratio at Colonel George Iles Elementary School is 13.4:1, based on 40 full-time-equivalent teachers. The average for elementary schools in Illinois is about 13.9:1. Colonel George Iles Elementary School counts 69% of students as eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. Public schools in Adams County average 56%.
Colonel George Iles Elementary School earns a B- on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 53% of Illinois public elementary schools.
After adjusting for student poverty, Colonel George Iles Elementary School lands between the top and bottom 10% of Illinois schools. Its average proficiency rate across its state test results is 37.8%; the prediction is 31.6%.
Census data for Adams County show the median household earns about $66,220 a year, 28% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Public schools in Adams County number 23, with about 8,717 students.
Of the public schools around it, Colonel George Iles Elementary School is closest to Quincy Jr High School, about 2.6 miles away. Inside a five-mile radius, there are 6 other public schools. Compared with its nearest neighbors, Colonel George Iles Elementary School ranks 5th of 8 on average proficiency.
The school's setting, by NCES definition, is Town: Remote: in a town far from an urbanized area.
Enrollment fell by 3% across 4 years, from 549 in 2020-21 to 535 in 2024-25.
The allk12 page for Colonel George Iles Elementary School lets the school community talk about pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. Current and former families are welcome to add their experience.
Adams County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
64,754
Census ACS
Median income
$66,220
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
28%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
9%
Below federal line
Schools in county
23
8,717 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Quincy SD 172
- Quincy Sr High SchoolHigh · 1,847 students
- Quincy Jr High SchoolMiddle · 1,295 students
- Lincoln-Douglas Elementary SchoolElementary · 588 students
- Thomas S Baldwin Elementary SchoolElementary · 564 students
- Sarah Atwater Denman Elementary SchoolElementary · 501 students
- Dr. Abby Fox Rooney Elementary SchoolElementary · 500 students
Other schools in Quincy
- Quincy Sr High SchoolHigh · 1,847 students
- Quincy Jr High SchoolMiddle · 1,295 students
- Lincoln-Douglas Elementary SchoolElementary · 588 students
- Thomas S Baldwin Elementary SchoolElementary · 564 students
- Sarah Atwater Denman Elementary SchoolElementary · 501 students
- Dr. Abby Fox Rooney Elementary SchoolElementary · 500 students
Nearby schools
- Quincy Jr High School2.6 mi · 1,295
- Early Childhood2.9 mi · 434
- Thomas S Baldwin Elementary School3.2 mi · 564
- Quincy Sr High School3.3 mi · 1,847
- Dr. Abby Fox Rooney Elementary School3.7 mi · 500
- Sarah Atwater Denman Elementary School4.8 mi · 501
Frequently asked questions
About Colonel George Iles Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Colonel George Iles Elementary School?
Colonel George Iles Elementary School enrolls approximately 535 students in grades KG-05.
What grades does Colonel George Iles Elementary School serve?
Colonel George Iles Elementary School serves grades KG-05.
How many students per teacher at Colonel George Iles Elementary School?
Approximately 13.4:1 students per teacher at Colonel George Iles Elementary School.
How diverse is Colonel George Iles Elementary School?
Colonel George Iles Elementary School reports a student body of 66% White, 5% Hispanic, 9% Black, 0% Asian, 19% Two or more.
Who oversees Colonel George Iles Elementary School?
Colonel George Iles Elementary School is overseen by Quincy SD 172 in Adams County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.