Delavan Elementary School

Delavan Elementary School, a modestly sized elementary campus in Delavan, Illinois, overseen by Delavan CUSD 703, caters to 191 students, covering grades pre-K through 6. By comparison, Illinois's public schools average about 381 students each, so Delavan Elementary School sits 50% leaner than that benchmark.

Across the 3 schools in Delavan CUSD 703 (375 students total), Delavan Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Delavan Elementary School logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (95%). Beyond that, the school shows 2% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, On paper, Delavan Elementary School has 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 9.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.9:1, putting Delavan Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. About 38% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

After controlling for student poverty, Delavan Elementary School falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 49.5%; this one comes in at 32.9%, -16.6 points off the demographic line.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Tazewell County) logs that median household income runs about $77,982, 28% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Across Tazewell County's 56 public schools (combined enrollment of about 18,581 students), Delavan Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Delavan Jr High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 2 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Delavan Elementary School comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 42.1%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Delavan Elementary School has fell 24%, going from 252 students in 2018 to 191 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 10.7:1 in 2018 to 9.0:1 today.

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