Hamilton Elementary School

Located at 1830 Broadway St, in Hamilton, Illinois, Hamilton Elementary School is a reasonably sized elementary school that educates 384 students (grades pre-K through 8), operated by Hamilton CCSD 328.

Within Hamilton CCSD 328, which oversees 2 schools and 577 students, Hamilton Elementary School is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Hamilton Elementary School logs that 88% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 9% multiracial.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.1:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.9:1, putting Hamilton Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 56% of students at Hamilton Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Hamilton Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 39.0%; this one delivers 51.3%.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Hancock County indicate the typical household earns roughly $65,865 per year, roughly 25% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Hamilton Elementary School is one of 15 public schools in Hancock County (combined enrollment of about 2,703 students).

Hamilton High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 6 other public schools cluster around Hamilton Elementary School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Hamilton Elementary School at 5th of 8; the average score across the group is 54.1%.

The campus sits in a town-center setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count grew 10%: 350 students in 2018 compared to 384 in 2025. The White share of enrollment shrank from 93% to 88% over that span. Class-load math has fell: from 14.1:1 in 2018 to 12.1:1 in 2025.

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