Harding Primary School

Harding Primary School, located in Monmouth, Illinois, is a small elementary school. It offers grades 2 through 3 and has 240 students enrolled. That is 37% below the average of about 381 students for elementary schools in Illinois.

Monmouth-Roseville CUSD 238 counts 5 schools and 1,579 students, including Harding Primary School.

More than half of the students at Harding Primary School are White (53%). Beyond that, enrollment is 27% Hispanic, 8% Black, 7% Asian, and 5% multiracial. In Warren County overall, about 83% of residents are White. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 63%.

The school's 18.4 full-time-equivalent teachers translate to a student-to-teacher ratio of 13.0:1. The average for elementary schools in Illinois is 13.9:1, so this school has fewer students per teacher. At Harding Primary School, 66% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024-25. By comparison, the figure for public schools in Warren County is 53%.

On BeatsExpectations, Harding Primary School is 5.6 points below its prediction, a result in the middle 80% of Illinois schools.

In Warren County, home to about 16,447 people, median household income comes to about $67,385, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 22%, and about 9% of people live in poverty. Warren County's 10 public schools enroll about 2,788 students and include Harding Primary School.

Central Intermediate School is about 0.6 miles from Harding Primary School, the shortest distance to any other public school. Other public schools within five miles: 4. The nearest schools with test data average 38.8%, higher than Harding Primary School's 27.9%.

NCES lists the school's locale as Town: Distant. That means it sits in a town some distance from an urbanized area.

From 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment increased from 196 to 240, a 22% rise.

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