East Elementary School

East Elementary School is a middle-of-the-pack elementary school in Alton, Illinois, part of Alton CUSD 11. The school teaches 415 students in grades 3 through 5.

Alton CUSD 11 comprises 10 schools with combined enrollment of 5,526 students; East Elementary School is among them.

Looking at the student body, East Elementary School records that the most-represented group is White (45%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school reports 33% Black, 15% multiracial, 5% Hispanic. By comparison, Madison County as a whole is about 83% White, so the school skews noticeably less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, The school reports having 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.0:1. The state averages around 13.9:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 65% of students at East Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Madison County runs at roughly 46%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, East Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 34.1%; this one delivers 31.6%.

In the broader community, census data for Madison County shows the typical household earns roughly $75,793 per year, about 31% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. East Elementary School is one of 84 public schools in Madison County (combined enrollment of about 35,253 students).

Nearest neighbor: Alton Middle School, around 0.6 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around East Elementary School. On composite proficiency, East Elementary School comes 3rd of 6 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 28.7%.

East Elementary School operates from a bedroom-community location.

Trend over the last 7 years. East Elementary School's enrollment has declined 11% since 2018, when it stood at 467 (now 415). Black enrollment moved from 39% to 33% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 15.1:1 in 2018 to 13.0:1 today.

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