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Enrollment
399
Elementary
DISTRICT 372 · STATE 381
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·URBANA SD 116·NCES 173996004013
Dr Preston L Williams Jr Elementary School
2102 E Washington St, Urbana, IL 61802 · (217) 384-3628 · Champaign County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL399 STUDENTS
F
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 1% of Illinois public elementary schools
- FTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Illinois public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
12.7:1
32 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.1:1 · STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
88%
353 students
DISTRICT 74% · STATE 56%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 66 | 17% |
| Grade 1 | 59 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 73 | 18% |
| Grade 3 | 68 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 63 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 70 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (66) is 6% smaller than its 5th grade class (70).
Student demographics
53%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 72% · STATE 69% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
IAR + ISA 2024-25 . % Proficient (Levels 4-5)English Language Arts
8.2%
IL avg 51.0% . +3.3pp since 2023
Math
5.1%
IL avg 37.9% . +2.7pp since 2023
What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 8 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 5 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Illinois schools, those numbers are about 51 and 38. Reading and writing scores are up about 3 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 3 points.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 8.2% | 5.1% |
| 2023-24 | 4.9% | 2.4% |
% Proficient (Levels 4-5), all students and all tested grades.
Source: IAR + ISA. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
7.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
20.4%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-13.1pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 7% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 20% typical for Illinois schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Illinois's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Dr Preston L Williams Jr Elementary School
Dr Preston L Williams Jr Elementary School's state test result (7.3% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dr Preston L Williams Jr Elementary School this school | 399 | 88.5% | 7.3% |
| American Dreamer STEM Academy Decatur | 423 | 89.1% | 11.8% |
| Harvard Park Elementary School Springfield | 370 | 87.6% | 11.8% |
| Hines Primary School Peoria | 403 | 88.8% | 20.6% |
| Dr Maude A Sanders Primary School Peoria | 442 | 87.8% | 16.8% |
| Dr. C.T. Vivian Primary School Peoria | 378 | 84.7% | 27.9% |
Matched among Illinois elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Dr Preston L Williams Jr Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Illinois | In Champaign County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 7.3% | #1,909 of 1,925 | #28 of 29 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 5.1% | #2,031 of 2,077 ▼ 22 | #29 of 30 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 8.2% | #2,069 of 2,077 ▼ 18 | #30 of 30 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 399 | #1,007 of 2,419 | #17 of 37 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.7:1 | #783 of 2,035 | #10 of 31 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 53.5% | #810 of 2,042 | #20 of 31 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 88.5% | #321 of 2,132 | #4 of 32 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -10.3% | #900 of 1,461 | #7 of 19 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
399
-41 (-9%) vs 2020
-19% since 1990-91, when it was 494
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 399 | 31.5 | 12.7:1 | 88% (353) |
| 2023-24 | 517 | 29 | 17.8:1 | 85% (437) |
| 2022-23 | 446 | 30 | 14.9:1 | 87% (386) |
| 2020-21 | 440 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 445 | 34.4 | 12.9:1 | 84% (372) |
| 2015-16 | 463 | 37 | 12.5:1 | 91% (420) |
| 2010-11 | 330 | 23 | 14.3:1 | 80% (263) |
| 2000-01 | 359 | 30 | 12.0:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 494 | 31 | 15.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Dr Preston L Williams Jr Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 10% (445 to 399); teachers down 8% (34.4 to 31.5).
About Dr Preston L Williams Jr Elementary School
Students in Urbana, Illinois, attend Dr Preston L Williams Jr Elementary School, a mid-sized elementary school. The school teaches kindergarten through 5 and enrolls 399 students.
Urbana SD 116 has a total of 9 schools and 4,658 students, Dr Preston L Williams Jr Elementary School among them.
More than half of the students at Dr Preston L Williams Jr Elementary School are Black (65%). The next largest groups are 15% White, 15% multiracial, and 4% Hispanic. In Champaign County overall, about 14% of residents are Black. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Dr Preston L Williams Jr Elementary School scores 53%.
The school has 31.5 full-time-equivalent teachers and a ratio of 12.7 students per teacher. Elementary schools in Illinois have an average ratio of 13.9:1. The school reported 88% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024-25. That rate is above the 53% average among public schools in Champaign County.
Dr Preston L Williams Jr Elementary School earns an F on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 1% of Illinois public elementary schools.
In Illinois, Dr Preston L Williams Jr Elementary School is in the middle band of BeatsExpectations: 7.3% actual against a predicted 20.4%.
The county, Champaign County, is where the school is located. The median household earns about $63,683 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 46%, and about 7% of people live in poverty. Counting Dr Preston L Williams Jr Elementary School, Champaign County has 66 public schools.
Urbana Early Childhood Center is less than a tenth of a mile away, making it the nearest public school. Other public schools within five miles number at least 8. On average proficiency, Dr Preston L Williams Jr Elementary School is 5th of 5 nearby schools with test data.
For locale, NCES codes Dr Preston L Williams Jr Elementary School as City: Small.
The school shrank from 440 students in 2020-21 to 399 in 2024-25.
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Champaign County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
208,741
Census ACS
Median income
$63,683
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
46%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
66
25,919 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Urbana SD 116
- Urbana High SchoolHigh · 1,176 students
- Urbana Middle SchoolMiddle · 877 students
- Yankee Ridge Multilingual SchoolElementary · 482 students
- Yankee Ridge Elementary SchoolElementary · 461 students
- Leal Elementary SchoolElementary · 373 students
- Thomas Paine Elementary SchoolElementary · 324 students
Other schools in Urbana
- Urbana High SchoolHigh · 1,176 students
- Urbana Middle SchoolMiddle · 877 students
- Yankee Ridge Multilingual SchoolElementary · 482 students
- Yankee Ridge Elementary SchoolElementary · 461 students
- Leal Elementary SchoolElementary · 373 students
- Thomas Paine Elementary SchoolElementary · 324 students
Nearby schools
- Urbana Early Childhood Center0.0 mi · 244
- Thomas Paine Elementary School0.7 mi · 324
- Urbana Middle School1.4 mi · 877
- Yankee Ridge Multilingual School1.5 mi · 482
- Yankee Ridge Elementary School1.5 mi · 461
- Urbana High School1.5 mi · 1,176
Frequently asked questions
About Dr Preston L Williams Jr Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Dr Preston L Williams Jr Elementary School?
Dr Preston L Williams Jr Elementary School enrolls approximately 399 students in grades KG-05.
What grades does Dr Preston L Williams Jr Elementary School serve?
Dr Preston L Williams Jr Elementary School serves grades KG-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Dr Preston L Williams Jr Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Dr Preston L Williams Jr Elementary School is approximately 12.7:1 (32 FTE teachers).
How diverse is Dr Preston L Williams Jr Elementary School?
Dr Preston L Williams Jr Elementary School reports a student body of 15% White, 4% Hispanic, 65% Black, 1% Asian, 15% Two or more.
Who oversees Dr Preston L Williams Jr Elementary School?
Dr Preston L Williams Jr Elementary School is overseen by Urbana SD 116 in Champaign County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.