Enrollment
327
Elementary
DISTRICT 393 · STATE 381
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·EAST ST LOUIS SD 189·NCES 171332004987
Dunbar Elementary School
1835 Tudor Ave, East Saint Louis, IL 62207 · (618) 646-3840 · St. Clair County
GRADES KG–04ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL327 STUDENTS
C+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 37% of Illinois public elementary schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B+Beats 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
12.1:1
27 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.4:1 · STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
100%
327 students
DISTRICT 99% · STATE 56%
Community
0
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 | 63 | 19% |
| Grade 1 | 80 | 24% |
| Grade 2 | 57 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 65 | 20% |
| Grade 4 | 61 | 19% |
| Grade 5 | 1 | 0% |
Student demographics
2%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 9% · 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
31.4%
IL avg 51.0% . +17.5pp since 2023
Math
20.0%
IL avg 37.9% . +11.2pp since 2023
What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 31 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 20 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 18 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 11 points.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 31.4% | 20.0% |
| 2023-24 | 13.9% | 8.8% |
% 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
22.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
13.8%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+8.4pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 22% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 14% 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 Dunbar Elementary School
Dunbar Elementary School's state test result (22.1% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dunbar Elementary School this school | 327 | 100.0% | 22.1% |
| Annette Officer Elementary East Saint Louis | 362 | 100.0% | 35.7% |
| New Beginnings Learning Academy South Holland | 288 | 99.3% | 14.8% |
| Vivian Adams Early Child Center East Saint Louis | 377 | 99.7% | N/A |
| Betty Shabazz Internl Charter School Chicago | 293 | 99.3% | 34.7% |
| Drake Elementary School Chicago | 302 | 97.7% | 15.9% |
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 Dunbar Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Illinois | In St. Clair County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 22.1% | #1,536 of 1,925 | #37 of 43 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 20.0% | #1,604 of 2,077 ▲ 71 | #33 of 43 ▲ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 31.4% | #1,628 of 2,077 ▲ 172 | #36 of 43 ▲ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 327 | #1,377 of 2,419 | #25 of 50 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.1:1 | #588 of 2,035 | #10 of 45 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 2.4% | #2,034 of 2,042 | #45 of 45 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 100% | #9 of 2,132 | #1 of 47 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -31.2% | #149 of 1,461 | #2 of 30 |
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
327
-57 (-15%) vs 2020
-50% since 1990-91, when it was 650
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 | 327 | 27 | 12.1:1 | 100% (327) |
| 2023-24 | 362 | 24 | 15.1:1 | 95% (343) |
| 2022-23 | 338 | 26 | 13.0:1 | 99% (336) |
| 2020-21 | 384 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 475 | 26.1 | 18.2:1 | 78% (370) |
| 2015-16 | 505 | 26 | 19.4:1 | 99% (499) |
| 2010-11 | 427 | 23 | 18.6:1 | 93% (398) |
| 2000-01 | 387 | 27 | 14.3:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 650 | 29 | 22.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Dunbar Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 31% (475 to 327); teachers up 4% (26.1 to 27).
About Dunbar Elementary School
Located in East Saint Louis, Illinois, Dunbar Elementary School is a medium-sized elementary school. It serves 327 students in kindergarten through 4.
The East St Louis SD 189 system has 10 schools and 4,646 students.
Dunbar Elementary School's enrollment is 99% Black. Census figures show St. Clair County is about 28% Black. Pick two students at random and there is a 2% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
The teaching staff at Dunbar Elementary School is 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the ratio is 12.1:1. This ratio sits 1.8 below the 13.9:1 average for elementary schools in Illinois. The percentage of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch is 100%. The 54% average for public schools in St. Clair County is 46 points lower.
allk12 grades Dunbar Elementary School a C+. The grade compares the school only with Illinois public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
Dunbar Elementary School posts an average proficiency rate on state tests of 22.1%, compared with a predicted 13.8%. It is not in the top or bottom 10% of Illinois schools on BeatsExpectations.
Dunbar Elementary School is located in St. Clair County, where the median household income is $73,854, 32% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Dunbar Elementary School is one of 96 public schools in the county.
The closest other public school is East St Louis-Lincoln Middle School, about 1.0 miles away. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Its average proficiency rate of 22.1% is below the 43.3% average for nearby schools.
In the federal locale system, Dunbar Elementary School is coded Suburb: Large, for schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment at Dunbar Elementary School declined 15% between 2020-21 and 2024-25, from 384 to 327 students.
If you have questions about enrollment questions, class placement, and PTA news at Dunbar Elementary School, you can post them here. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.
St. Clair County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
253,694
Census ACS
Median income
$73,854
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
32%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
96
40,879 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in East St Louis SD 189
- East St Louis Senior High SchoolHigh · 1,288 students
- Mason/Clark Middle SchoolMiddle · 540 students
- Wyvetter Younge School of ExcellenceElementary · 534 students
- Katie Harper-Wright Elementary SchoolElementary · 418 students
- Vivian Adams Early Child CenterElementary · 377 students
- Annette Officer ElementaryElementary · 362 students
Other schools in East Saint Louis
- East St Louis Senior High SchoolHigh · 1,288 students
- Mason/Clark Middle SchoolMiddle · 540 students
- Katie Harper-Wright Elementary SchoolElementary · 418 students
- Vivian Adams Early Child CenterElementary · 377 students
- Annette Officer ElementaryElementary · 362 students
- East St Louis-Lincoln Middle SchoolMiddle · 359 students
Other Dunbar Elementary schools
One other US public school is named Dunbar Elementary. Dunbar Elementary School is the largest of the 2.
- Dunbar ElementaryMemphis, TN · 206 students
Nearby schools
- East St Louis-Lincoln Middle School1.0 mi · 359
- SIU Charter School of East St Louis1.2 mi · 99
- Vivian Adams Early Child Center1.5 mi · 377
- Annette Officer Elementary1.6 mi · 362
- Maplewood Elementary School2.5 mi · 290
- LIFT FOR LIFE ACADEMY HIGH SCH2.6 mi · 383
Frequently asked questions
About Dunbar Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Dunbar Elementary School?
Dunbar Elementary School enrolls approximately 327 students in grades KG-04.
What age range does Dunbar Elementary School serve?
Dunbar Elementary School serves students from grade KG through grade 04.
How many students per teacher at Dunbar Elementary School?
Approximately 12.1:1 students per teacher at Dunbar Elementary School.
How diverse is Dunbar Elementary School?
Dunbar Elementary School reports a student body of 1% Hispanic, 99% Black, 1% Two or more.
What district is Dunbar Elementary School in?
Dunbar Elementary School is part of East St Louis SD 189.
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