Deland-Weldon Elem School

Deland-Weldon Elem School operates as a micro-enrollment elementary school in Weldon, Illinois, part of Deland-Weldon CUSD 57. Current enrollment sits at 100 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Illinois's public schools average about 381 students each, so Deland-Weldon Elem School sits 74% leaner than that benchmark.

Within Deland-Weldon CUSD 57, which oversees 3 schools and 173 students, Deland-Weldon Elem School is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Deland-Weldon Elem School logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (92%). Beyond that, the school reports 4% Black, 3% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school lists 12 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 8.5:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.9:1, putting Deland-Weldon Elem School tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 58% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Piatt County runs at roughly 38%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Deland-Weldon Elem School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 38.0%; this one delivers 45.8%.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Piatt County indicate median household income runs about $94,811, 33% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Across Piatt County's 14 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,086 students), Deland-Weldon Elem School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Deland-Weldon Middle School, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Deland-Weldon Elem School. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Deland-Weldon Elem School ranks 4th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 45.2%.

The school occupies a rural site.

Over the past 7-year window. Deland-Weldon Elem School's enrollment has fell 11% since 2018, when it stood at 112 (now 100). Over the same period, the Hispanic share shrank from 8% to 3%. Class-load math has tightened: from 9.6:1 in 2018 to 8.5:1 in 2025.

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