Freeburg Elem School

Freeburg Elem School is one of the reasonably sized junior highs in Freeburg, Illinois, overseen by Freeburg CCSD 70, with 508 students on its rolls from grades 3 through 8.

Freeburg CCSD 70 comprises 2 schools with combined enrollment of 752 students; Freeburg Elem School is among them.

On the student-mix side, Freeburg Elem School lists that the student body is overwhelmingly White (95%); the rest comes out to 3% Hispanic. By comparison, St. Clair County as a whole is about 60% White, so the school skews noticeably more White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, Freeburg Elem School has 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.0:1, putting Freeburg Elem School higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 28% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against St. Clair County (around 54%), the school's rate is south of typical.

With demographic context factored in, Freeburg Elem School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 55.1% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 64.9%.

Around the school, community-level numbers for St. Clair County indicate the typical household earns roughly $73,854 per year, 32% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Freeburg Elem School is one of 96 public schools in St. Clair County (combined enrollment of about 40,879 students).

Nearest neighbor: Freeburg Primary Center, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around Freeburg Elem School. On composite proficiency, Freeburg Elem School comes 2nd of 7 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 47.8%.

The campus sits in an outlying setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Freeburg Elem School has held roughly steady, going from 519 students in 2018 to 508 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 16.7:1 in 2018 to 14.1:1 today.

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