Glenn Raymond School

Glenn Raymond School operates as an intimate elementary campus in Watseka, Illinois, one of the schools within Iroquois County CUSD 9. Current enrollment sits at 321 students spanning grades 1 through 5.

Across the 4 schools in Iroquois County CUSD 9 (939 students total), Glenn Raymond School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Glenn Raymond School logs that 78% of the student body identifies as White; the rest reads as 15% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 2% Black. By comparison, Iroquois County as a whole is about 89% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, The school lists 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.5:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.9:1 average. Roughly 68% of students at Glenn Raymond School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is higher than Iroquois County's rate of about 53%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Glenn Raymond School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 32.1% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 42.3%.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Iroquois County indicate median household earnings sit near $66,255, roughly 18% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Iroquois County runs 24 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,909 students), of which Glenn Raymond School is one.

Watseka Junior High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Glenn Raymond School ranks 4th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 47.4%.

The school occupies a town-center site.

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