Enrollment
280
Elementary
DISTRICT 354 · STATE 381
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MCLEAN COUNTY USD 5·NCES 172862002999
Fairview Elementary School
416 Fairview St, Normal, IL 61761 · (309) 557-4415 · McLean County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY22-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL280 STUDENTS
C+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 38% of Illinois public elementary schools
- B-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Illinois public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
17.1:1
16 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.9:1 · STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
55%
153 students
DISTRICT 40% · STATE 56%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 3 | 1% |
| Kindergarten | 48 | 17% |
| Grade 1 | 35 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 47 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 59 | 21% |
| Grade 4 | 47 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 41 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (48) is 17% larger than its 5th grade class (41).
Student demographics
68%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 66% · STATE 69% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
IAR + ISA 2024-25 . % Proficient (Levels 4-5)English Language Arts
50.7%
IL avg 51.0% . +23.1pp since 2023
Math
29.7%
IL avg 37.9% . +9.8pp since 2023
What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 51 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 30 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 23 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 10 points.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 50.7% | 29.7% |
| 2023-24 | 27.6% | 19.9% |
% Proficient (Levels 4-5), all students and all tested grades.
Source: IAR + ISA. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
38.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
40.0%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-1.7pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 38% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 40% 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%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Fairview Elementary School
Fairview Elementary School's state test result (38.3% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fairview Elementary School this school | 280 | 54.6% | 38.3% |
| Roosevelt Elementary School Belleville | 272 | 57.7% | 51.1% |
| Stevenson Elementary School Bloomington | 299 | 55.5% | 31.5% |
| Lewis & Clark Elementary School Godfrey | 251 | 57.4% | N/A |
| Illini Elementary School Fairview Heights | 315 | 48.9% | 34.1% |
| Kellar Primary School Peoria | 365 | 53.2% | 52.6% |
Matched among Illinois elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Fairview Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Illinois | In McLean County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 38.3% | #977 of 1,925 | #19 of 29 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 29.7% | #1,293 of 2,077 ▼ 100 | #22 of 29 ▼ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 50.7% | #982 of 2,077 ▲ 301 | #17 of 29 ▲ 3 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 280 | #1,653 of 2,419 | #23 of 32 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.1:1 | #1,852 of 2,035 | #25 of 30 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 68.2% | #220 of 2,042 | #10 of 30 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 54.6% | #1,171 of 2,132 | #10 of 31 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +6.1% | #391 of 615 | #4 of 6 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
280
-49 (-15%) vs 2020
-45% since 1990-91, when it was 512
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 280 | 16.4 | 17.1:1 | 55% (153) |
| 2023-24 | 299 | 18.5 | 16.2:1 | 60% (178) |
| 2022-23 | 319 | 21.3 | 15.0:1 | 62% (197) |
| 2020-21 | 329 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 264 | 17.4 | 15.2:1 | 43% (114) |
| 2015-16 | 249 | 18 | 13.8:1 | 43% (108) |
| 2010-11 | 321 | 24 | 13.4:1 | 52% (166) |
| 2000-01 | 440 | 25 | 17.6:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 512 | 27 | 19.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Fairview Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 6% (264 to 280); teachers down 6% (17.4 to 16.4).
About Fairview Elementary School
Fairview Elementary School is a public elementary school run by McLean County USD 5 in Normal, Illinois. Enrolled students number 280 students, in kindergarten through 5. Enrollment is 27% lower than the average for elementary schools in Illinois, which is about 381.
McLean County USD 5 runs Fairview Elementary School along with 23 other schools, enrolling 12,407 students in total.
Fairview Elementary School has no majority group; White students are the largest, at 41%. Other students are 35% Black, 12% Hispanic, and 11% multiracial. By comparison, McLean County residents are about 78% White. The school's diversity index is 68%, meaning two students picked at random have a 68% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.
Fairview Elementary School employs 16.4 full-time-equivalent teachers. That gives a ratio of about 17.1:1. The school has more students per teacher than the 13.9:1 average for elementary schools in Illinois. Fairview Elementary School's free or reduced-price lunch eligibility rate is 55%. That rate is above the 40% average among public schools in McLean County.
Measured against Illinois public elementary schools, Fairview Elementary School receives a C+. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
The allk12 BeatsExpectations score for Fairview Elementary School is -1.7 points: 38.3% actual, 40.0% predicted.
McLean County has about 171,556 residents, and the median household income is $79,905, 47% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Besides Fairview Elementary School, McLean County has 59 other public schools.
The school nearest to Fairview Elementary School is University High School, at a distance of about 0.7 miles. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. Among the 8 closest schools with test data, this one included, Fairview Elementary School ranks 6th on average proficiency.
Its NCES locale code is Suburb: Mid-size: the school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
Enrollment has fallen by 49 students since 2020-21, to 280.
Community posts for Fairview Elementary School can cover school safety, transportation, and start times. Questions from prospective families are welcome too.
McLean County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
171,556
Census ACS
Median income
$79,905
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
47%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
60
23,759 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in McLean County USD 5
- Normal Community High SchoolHigh · 2,079 students
- Normal Community West High SchoolHigh · 1,590 students
- Evans Junior High SchoolMiddle · 778 students
- Kingsley Jr High SchoolMiddle · 730 students
- Benjamin Elementary SchoolElementary · 607 students
- Parkside Jr High SchoolMiddle · 598 students
Other schools in Normal
- Normal Community High SchoolHigh · 2,079 students
- Normal Community West High SchoolHigh · 1,590 students
- Kingsley Jr High SchoolMiddle · 730 students
- University High SchoolHigh · 624 students
- Parkside Jr High SchoolMiddle · 598 students
- Chiddix Jr High SchoolMiddle · 597 students
Other Fairview Elementary schools
62 other US public schools in 28 states are named Fairview Elementary. Fairview Elementary School is the 47th largest of the 63.
- Fairview Elementary SchoolHoffman Estates, IL · 469 students
- Fairview Elementary SchoolMt Prospect, IL · 463 students
- Fairview Elementary SchoolSpringfield, IL · 302 students
- Fairview ElementaryModesto, CA · 786 students
- Fairview ElementaryFairfax Station, VA · 751 students
Nearby schools
- University High School0.7 mi · 624
- Thomas Metcalf School1.1 mi · 459
- Kingsley Jr High School1.2 mi · 730
- Chiddix Jr High School1.4 mi · 597
- Prairieland Elementary School1.5 mi · 450
- Oakdale Elementary School1.5 mi · 386
Frequently asked questions
About Fairview Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Fairview Elementary School?
Fairview Elementary School enrolls approximately 280 students in grades KG-05.
What grades does Fairview Elementary School serve?
Fairview Elementary School serves grades KG-05.
How many students per teacher at Fairview Elementary School?
Approximately 17.1:1 students per teacher at Fairview Elementary School.
What is the student diversity at Fairview Elementary School?
Student demographics at Fairview Elementary School are roughly 41% White, 12% Hispanic, 35% Black, 1% Asian, 11% Two or more.
What district is Fairview Elementary School in?
Fairview Elementary School is part of McLean County USD 5.
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