Crescent City Grade School

Crescent City Grade School is one of the very small elementary schools in Crescent City, Illinois, part of Crescent Iroquois CUSD 249, with 54 students on its rolls from grades K through 5. By comparison, Illinois's public schools average about 381 students each, so Crescent City Grade School sits 86% below that benchmark.

Crescent City Grade School is a school of Crescent Iroquois CUSD 249, the district that handles curriculum, staffing, and budget for the campus.

On the student-mix side, Crescent City Grade School shows that the largest single group is White, at 80% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school reports 11% multiracial, 7% Hispanic. By comparison, Iroquois County as a whole is about 89% White, so the school skews noticeably less White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 9 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 6.3:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.9:1 average. An estimated 15% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Iroquois County runs at roughly 53%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Crescent City Grade School is in the bottom 10% of Illinois public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 63.0%; Crescent City Grade School posts 42.1%, -20.9 points below that line.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Iroquois County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $66,255 per year, about 18% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Crescent City Grade School is one of 24 public schools in Iroquois County (combined enrollment of about 3,909 students).

Glenn Raymond School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 6.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Crescent City Grade School at 4th of 7; the average score across the group is 45.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a rural area.

Over the past 7-year window. Crescent City Grade School's enrollment has edged down 33% since 2018, when it stood at 81 (now 54). Over the same period, the White share contracted from 95% to 80%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 9.0:1 in 2018 to 6.3:1 today.

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