Elmwood Elem School

As a tight-knit elementary-level community in Elmwood, Illinois, Elmwood Elem School enrolls 314 students from grades pre-K through 6, part of Elmwood CUSD 322.

Elmwood Elem School is one of 3 schools operated by Elmwood CUSD 322, a district that caters to 622 students overall.

Looking at the student body, Elmwood Elem School shows that 89% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school logs 6% multiracial, 4% Hispanic. By comparison, Peoria County as a whole is about 67% White, so the school skews visibly more White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Elmwood Elem School reports 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.8:1. The state averages around 13.9:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 26% of students at Elmwood Elem School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Peoria County (around 57%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Elmwood Elem School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 56.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 57.9%.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Peoria County shows median household earnings sit near $65,108, about 35% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Elmwood Elem School is one of 81 public schools in Peoria County (combined enrollment of about 27,827 students).

Nearest neighbor: Elmwood Junior High School, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Elmwood Elem School. On composite proficiency, Elmwood Elem School comes 1st of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 49.2%.

Elmwood Elem School operates from a countryside location.

Looking at the recent track record. Elmwood Elem School's enrollment has fell 15% since 2018, when it stood at 369 (now 314). The White share of enrollment fell from 93% to 89% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 17.6:1 in 2018 to 15.8:1 today.

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