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Estelle Kampmeyer Elem School
Test scores
IAR + ISA 2024-25 . % Proficient (Levels 4-5)What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 71 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 65 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Illinois schools, those numbers are about 51 and 38. Reading and writing scores are up about 15 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 18 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 67% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 57% typical for Illinois schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Illinois's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Estelle Kampmeyer Elem School
Estelle Kampmeyer Elem School is a K-5 school of mid-tier scale in O Fallon, Illinois, part of O Fallon CCSD 90, teacheing 465 students in grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Illinois's public schools average about 381 students each, so Estelle Kampmeyer Elem School sits 22% above that benchmark.
O Fallon CCSD 90 runs 7 schools in total, collectively educating 3,862 students. Estelle Kampmeyer Elem School is one of those campuses.
On the student-mix side, Estelle Kampmeyer Elem School shows that 71% of the student body identifies as White. Beyond that, the school records 11% Black, 9% multiracial, 7% Hispanic, 3% Asian. By comparison, St. Clair County as a whole is about 60% White, so the school skews visibly more White than its surroundings.
Looking at the economic backdrop, The school employs 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.9:1, putting Estelle Kampmeyer Elem School higher than the state norm the norm. About 26% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is below St. Clair County's rate of about 54%.
With demographic context factored in, Estelle Kampmeyer Elem School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 56.6%, the actual is 66.8%, a residual of +10.2 points.
In the area at large, St. Clair County reports that the typical household earns roughly $73,854 per year, about 32% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. In all, St. Clair County runs 96 public schools (combined enrollment of about 40,879 students), of which Estelle Kampmeyer Elem School is one.
Nearest neighbor: Amelia V Carriel Jr High, around 0.7 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Estelle Kampmeyer Elem School at 4th of 9; the average score across the group is 59.4%.
Estelle Kampmeyer Elem School operates from a commuter-belt location.
Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Estelle Kampmeyer Elem School has grew 18%, going from 395 students in 2018 to 465 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 17.9:1 in 2018 to 15.8:1 today.
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