Edinburg Elem School

Edinburg Elem School is one of the one-room-style elementary-level communitys in Edinburg, Illinois, run under Edinburg CUSD 4, with 76 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 4. That puts it 80% below the typical public school in Illinois, which averages around 381 students.

Edinburg Elem School is one of 3 schools operated by Edinburg CUSD 4, a district that hosts 212 students overall.

On demographics, Edinburg Elem School shows that 93% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 5% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Christian County as a whole.

In terms of school funding signals, Edinburg Elem School records 9 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 8.9:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.9:1 average. Around 63% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is north of Christian County's rate of about 50%.

After controlling for student poverty, Edinburg Elem School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 35.0%, the actual is 23.9%, a residual of -11.2 points.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Christian County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $62,611 per year, roughly 17% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. In all, Christian County runs 19 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,740 students), of which Edinburg Elem School is one.

The closest other public school is Edinburg Jr High School, roughly 0.0 miles away. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Edinburg Elem School ranks 7th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 32.9%.

The school occupies a rural site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 45%: 139 students in 2018 compared to 76 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 15.1:1 in 2018 to 8.9:1 in 2025.

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