Feitshans Elem Sch

Feitshans Elem Sch operates as a tight-knit elementary campus in Springfield, Illinois, run under Springfield SD 186. Current enrollment sits at 288 students spanning grades K through 5. That puts it 24% leaner than the typical public school in Illinois, which averages around 381 students.

Across the 31 schools in Springfield SD 186 (13,014 students total), Feitshans Elem Sch accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Feitshans Elem Sch shows that Black students make up the majority at 63%; the rest breaks down as 24% White, 11% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 13%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.5:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 13.9:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 84% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Sangamon County runs at roughly 48%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Feitshans Elem Sch is in the bottom 10% of Illinois public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 23.0%; Feitshans Elem Sch posts 5.4%, -17.6 points below that line.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Sangamon County indicate the typical household earns roughly $75,357 per year, 37% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Feitshans Elem Sch is one of 77 public schools in Sangamon County (combined enrollment of about 27,345 students).

Iles Elem School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Feitshans Elem Sch at 8th of 9; the average score across the group is 34.9%.

Geographically, the school is in an urban area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Feitshans Elem Sch has declined 24%, going from 380 students in 2018 to 288 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 57% to 63% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 11.0:1 in 2018 to 12.5:1 today.

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