Cypress Elem School

Located at 4580 Mount Pisgah Rd, in Cypress, Illinois, Cypress Elem School is an one-room-style elementary school that educates 116 students (grades pre-K through 8), run under Cypress SD 64. Compared to the state average of about 381 students per school, that is 70% below typical.

Operationally, Cypress Elem School answers to Cypress SD 64, which sets policy, hires staff, and reports enrollment to the state.

In terms of who attends, Cypress Elem School shows that 91% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder looks like 8% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 81% White, putting the school's mix noticeably more White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, On paper, Cypress Elem School has 12 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 9.7:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.9:1 average. About 50% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, Cypress Elem School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 42.6%, the actual is 31.5%, a residual of -11.1 points.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Johnson County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $62,528 per year, roughly 20% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 15%. Cypress Elem School is one of 7 public schools in Johnson County (combined enrollment of about 1,743 students).

Buncombe Cons School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 7.5 miles from this campus. Within ten miles, there are 8 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. On composite proficiency, Cypress Elem School comes 3rd of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 29.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a rural area.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count showed little movement: 117 students in 2018 compared to 116 in 2025.

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