Cumberland Elem School

Set in Toledo, Illinois, Cumberland Elem School is a moderately sized K-5 school, part of Cumberland CUSD 77. It educates 387 students across grades pre-K through 4.

Cumberland CUSD 77 runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 972 students. Cumberland Elem School is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Cumberland Elem School logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (96%). The remainder looks like 2% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

In terms of school funding signals, Cumberland Elem School logs 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.5:1. The state averages around 13.9:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 26% of students at Cumberland Elem School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Cumberland County runs at roughly 35%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Cumberland Elem School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 56.3%, the actual is 43.7%, a residual of -12.6 points.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Cumberland County) logs that median household earnings sit near $73,327, about 20% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Cumberland Elem School is one of 7 public schools in Cumberland County (combined enrollment of about 1,493 students).

Cumberland Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Cumberland Elem School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Cumberland Elem School at 5th of 9; the average score across the group is 39.2%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Looking at the recent track record. Cumberland Elem School's enrollment has fell 17% since 2018, when it stood at 464 (now 387). Class-load math has fell: from 18.6:1 in 2018 to 11.5:1 in 2025.

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