Geff Elem School

Set in Geff, Illinois, Geff Elem School is a rural-scale elementary campus, run under Geff CCSD 14. It caters to 100 students across grades K through 8. That puts it 74% leaner than the typical public school in Illinois, which averages around 381 students.

Geff Elem School is a school of Geff CCSD 14, the district that handles curriculum, staffing, and budget for the campus.

Looking at the student body, Geff Elem School reports that 89% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 4% Black, 4% multiracial, 3% Hispanic.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 12 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 8.3:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.9:1 average. About 66% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is north of Wayne County's rate of about 46%.

After controlling for student poverty, Geff Elem School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 33.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 36.8%.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Wayne County put the typical household earns roughly $55,521 per year, about 16% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. Across Wayne County's 12 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,404 students), Geff Elem School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is North Side Elem School, roughly 4.4 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around Geff Elem School. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Geff Elem School ranks 8th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 50.8%.

Geff Elem School operates from a small-town location.

Five-year trend. Geff Elem School's enrollment has held roughly steady since 2018, when it stood at 100 (now 100). Over the same period, the White share fell from 96% to 89%.

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