Hedding Grade Sch

Hedding Grade Sch operates as a reasonably sized primary school in Abingdon, Illinois, part of Abingdon-Avon CUSD 276. Current enrollment sits at 376 students spanning grades pre-K through 5.

Abingdon-Avon CUSD 276 comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 906 students; Hedding Grade Sch is among them.

On demographics, Hedding Grade Sch logs that 86% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest comes out to 8% multiracial, 5% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.1:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.9:1, putting Hedding Grade Sch tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 62% of students at Hedding Grade Sch qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

After controlling for student poverty, Hedding Grade Sch tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 35.7% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 48.3%.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Knox County put median household income runs about $57,030, roughly 21% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Knox County's 26 public schools (combined enrollment of about 6,359 students), Hedding Grade Sch is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Abingdon-Avon High Sch, around 0.4 miles off. Within ten miles, there are 8 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Hedding Grade Sch at 2nd of 8; the average score across the group is 33.5%.

The campus sits in a rural setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count expanded 3%: 366 students in 2018 compared to 376 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 14.4:1 in 2018 to 11.1:1 today.

In the discussion threads here, members of the Hedding Grade Sch community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.