Eastview Elementary School

Located at 1490 E Myrtle St, in Canton, Illinois, Eastview Elementary School is a compact K-5 school that serves 288 students (grades pre-K through 4), part of Canton Union SD 66. That puts it 24% leaner than the typical public school in Illinois, which averages around 381 students.

Canton Union SD 66 runs 5 schools in total, collectively educating 2,094 students. Eastview Elementary School is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Eastview Elementary School reports that 89% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest consists of 7% multiracial, 4% Hispanic. Compared to Fulton County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Eastview Elementary School has 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 10.8:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.9:1 average. About 61% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Fulton County (around 51%), the school's rate is north of typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Eastview Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 36.2%; this one delivers 38.2%.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Fulton County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $60,599 per year, roughly 19% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Eastview Elementary School is one of 24 public schools in Fulton County (combined enrollment of about 4,160 students).

Ingersoll Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 4 other public schools cluster around Eastview Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Eastview Elementary School comes 8th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 43.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a town-center area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 12%: 329 students in 2018 compared to 288 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 14.0:1 in 2018 to 10.8:1 in 2025.

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