Field Elementary School

Field Elementary School is one of the small K-5 schools in Texico, Illinois, one of the schools within Field CCSD 3, with 233 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 8. That puts it 39% leaner than the typical public school in Illinois, which averages around 381 students.

Field Elementary School is a school of Field CCSD 3, the district that handles curriculum, staffing, and budget for the campus.

Demographically, Field Elementary School reports that 94% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school records 4% multiracial. That is noticeably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 84%.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Field Elementary School has 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 10.5:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.9:1 average. About 36% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is south of Jefferson County's rate of about 60%.

After controlling for student poverty, Field Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.5%, the actual is 37.6%, a residual of -12.9 points.

In the area at large, census data for Jefferson County shows median household income runs about $63,118, roughly 18% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. Field Elementary School is one of 31 public schools in Jefferson County (combined enrollment of about 5,314 students).

The closest other public school is Rome Comm Cons Elem School, roughly 4.0 miles away. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Field Elementary School comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 41.5%.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 12%: 265 students in 2018 compared to 233 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 99% to 94% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 13.0:1 in 2018 to 10.5:1 in 2025.

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