Coulterville Elementary School

Located at 101 W Grant St, in Coulterville, Illinois, Coulterville Elementary School is an one-room-style K-5 school that educates 77 students (grades pre-K through 5), overseen by Coulterville USD 1. By comparison, Illinois's public schools average about 381 students each, so Coulterville Elementary School sits 80% smaller than that benchmark.

Coulterville Elementary School is one of 3 schools operated by Coulterville USD 1, a district that caters to 185 students overall.

Demographically, Coulterville Elementary School records that 92% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 5% Hispanic.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 9 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 9.0:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 13.9:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 68% of students at Coulterville Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Randolph County (around 51%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Coulterville Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 32.5%; this one delivers 37.0%.

Zooming out to the county, Randolph County reports that median household income runs about $68,131, roughly 15% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Randolph County runs 16 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,876 students), of which Coulterville Elementary School is one.

Coulterville High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Coulterville Elementary School comes 3rd of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 33.3%.

Coulterville Elementary School operates from a small-town location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 25%: 102 students in 2018 compared to 77 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share increased from 1% to 5%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 11.3:1 in 2018 to 9.0:1 in 2025.

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