Edwin A Lee Elementary School

Edwin A Lee Elementary School is one of the one-room-style unified-grade schools in Springfield, Illinois, overseen by Springfield SD 186, with 204 students on its rolls from grades K through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 72% smaller than the state mean of about 737.

Springfield SD 186 runs 31 schools in total, collectively educating 13,014 students. Edwin A Lee Elementary School is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Edwin A Lee Elementary School records that the most-represented group is Black (54%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school shows 29% White, 14% multiracial, 2% Hispanic. That is considerably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 13%.

On the income-and-resources front, Edwin A Lee Elementary School logs 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.2:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.0:1 average. About 88% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is above Sangamon County's rate of about 48%.

With demographic context factored in, Edwin A Lee Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 20.8%; this one delivers 12.7%.

Zooming out to the county, Sangamon County reports that the typical household earns roughly $75,357 per year, roughly 37% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Across Sangamon County's 77 public schools (combined enrollment of about 27,345 students), Edwin A Lee Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Laketown Elem School, around 1.2 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Edwin A Lee Elementary School comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 22.6%.

The school occupies a metropolitan site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 16%: 243 students in 2018 compared to 204 in 2025. The White share of enrollment contracted from 35% to 29% over that span.

On the community side, members of the Edwin A Lee Elementary School community share and discuss sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.