Dr Maude A Sanders Primary School

Dr Maude A Sanders Primary School operates as a medium-sized elementary campus in Peoria, Illinois, part of Peoria SD 150. Current enrollment sits at 442 students spanning grades K through 4.

Peoria SD 150 runs 25 schools in total, collectively educating 13,312 students. Dr Maude A Sanders Primary School is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Dr Maude A Sanders Primary School reports that 68% of the student body identifies as Black. The remainder consists of 11% White, 11% Hispanic, 9% multiracial. That is considerably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 17%.

Looking at school resources, Dr Maude A Sanders Primary School logs 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.2:1. The state averages around 13.9:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 88% of students at Dr Maude A Sanders Primary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Peoria County runs at roughly 57%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Dr Maude A Sanders Primary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 20.8%, the actual is 16.8%, a residual of -4.0 points.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Peoria County shows the typical household earns roughly $65,108 per year, 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Peoria County's 81 public schools (combined enrollment of about 27,827 students), Dr Maude A Sanders Primary School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Quest Charter School Academy, around 0.7 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Dr Maude A Sanders Primary School. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Dr Maude A Sanders Primary School ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 17.6%.

The school occupies a downtown site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Dr Maude A Sanders Primary School has edged up 8%, going from 410 students in 2018 to 442 in 2025. The White share of enrollment contracted from 15% to 11% over that span.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.