Evansville Attendance Center

Set in Evansville, Illinois, Evansville Attendance Center is an one-room-style elementary campus, part of Sparta CUSD 140. It serves 109 students across grades K through 8. By comparison, Illinois's public schools average about 381 students each, so Evansville Attendance Center sits 71% below that benchmark.

Sparta CUSD 140 runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 1,153 students. Evansville Attendance Center is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Evansville Attendance Center logs that 97% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. That is meaningfully more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 86%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 11 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 9.9:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.9:1, putting Evansville Attendance Center tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 21% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Randolph County (around 51%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Evansville Attendance Center is in the bottom 10% of Illinois public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 59.3%; Evansville Attendance Center posts 33.0%, -26.4 points below that line.

In the area at large, census data for Randolph County shows the typical household earns roughly $68,131 per year, roughly 15% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Randolph County runs 16 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,876 students), of which Evansville Attendance Center is one.

Red Bud Elem School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 8.3 miles from this campus. 6 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Evansville Attendance Center ranks 8th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 42.5%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 19%: 135 students in 2018 compared to 109 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 11.9:1 in 2018 to 9.9:1 today.

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