Dahlgren Elem School

Dahlgren Elem School is a primary school of one-room-style scale in Dahlgren, Illinois, one of the schools within Hamilton Co CUSD 10, hosting 139 students in grades K through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 64% below the state mean of about 381.

Across the 4 schools in Hamilton Co CUSD 10 (1,091 students total), Dahlgren Elem School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Dahlgren Elem School logs that 98% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Compared to Hamilton County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 8 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.3:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 13.9:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 56% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Dahlgren Elem School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 39.1% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 44.7%.

Zooming out to the county, Hamilton County reports that median household income runs about $65,746, roughly 21% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Hamilton County's 4 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,091 students), Dahlgren Elem School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Opdyke-Belle Rive Grade Sch, around 7.3 miles off. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, Dahlgren Elem School comes 3rd of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 38.8%.

The campus sits in a countryside setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 10%: 154 students in 2018 compared to 139 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 14.5:1 in 2018 to 17.3:1 today.

On this page, posts here usually surface around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.