East Side Intermediate School

East Side Intermediate School, a middle-of-the-pack elementary campus in Harrisburg, Illinois, one of the schools within Harrisburg CUSD 3, enrolls 397 students, covering grades 3 through 5.

Across the 5 schools in Harrisburg CUSD 3 (1,781 students total), East Side Intermediate School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, East Side Intermediate School shows that 88% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school shows 6% multiracial, 4% Black. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, East Side Intermediate School records 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.7:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 67% of students at East Side Intermediate School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

After controlling for student poverty, East Side Intermediate School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 33.0%, the actual is 39.4%, a residual of +6.4 points.

Across the wider county, Saline County reports that the typical household earns roughly $53,117 per year, about 20% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 14%. East Side Intermediate School is one of 15 public schools in Saline County (combined enrollment of about 3,704 students).

West Side Primary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 5 other public schools cluster around East Side Intermediate School. On composite proficiency, East Side Intermediate School comes 3rd of 6 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 33.4%.

East Side Intermediate School operates from a town-based location.

Five-year trend. East Side Intermediate School's enrollment has shrank 10% since 2018, when it stood at 441 (now 397). Over the same period, the White share expanded from 83% to 88%.

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