Enrollment
154
Elementary
DISTRICT 289 · STATE 381
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BELLEVILLE SD 118·NCES 170561000235
Henry Raab Elementary School
1120 Union Ave, Belleville, IL 62220 · (618) 234-4330 · St. Clair County
GRADES KG–06ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL154 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
13.6:1
11 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.7:1 · STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
77%
119 students
DISTRICT 71% · STATE 56%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 20 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 17 | 11% |
| Grade 2 | 20 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 27 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 22 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 25 | 16% |
| Grade 6 | 23 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (20) is 13% smaller than its 6th grade class (23).
Student demographics
61%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 63% · STATE 69% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
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IAR + ISA 2024-25 . % Proficient (Levels 4-5)English Language Arts
55.3%
IL avg 51.0% . +5.9pp since 2023
Math
42.6%
IL avg 37.9% . -2.1pp since 2023
What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 55 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 43 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Illinois schools, those numbers are about 51 and 38. Reading and writing scores are up about 6 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 2 points.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 55.3% | 42.6% |
| 2023-24 | 49.4% | 44.7% |
% Proficient (Levels 4-5), all students and all tested grades.
Source: IAR + ISA. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of IL schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
48.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
26.9%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+21.6pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 49% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 27% typical for Illinois schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 22 points, placing it in Illinois's top 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Henry Raab Elementary School
Henry Raab Elementary School's state test result (48.5% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Henry Raab Elementary School this school | 154 | 77.3% | 48.5% |
| Hazel Dell Elementary School Springfield | 140 | 75.7% | 31.5% |
| Southern View Elementary School Springfield | 171 | 76.0% | 18.5% |
| Franklin Elementary School Belleville | 172 | 82.0% | 24.2% |
| McClernand Elementary School Springfield | 213 | 80.3% | 16.9% |
| Black Hawk Elementary School Springfield | 234 | 78.2% | 24.3% |
Matched among Illinois elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Henry Raab Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Illinois | In St. Clair County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 48.5% | #635 of 1,925 | #15 of 43 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 42.6% | #891 of 2,077 ▼ 458 | #16 of 43 ▼ 6 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 55.3% | #828 of 2,077 ▼ 324 | #14 of 43 ▼ 3 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 154 | #2,201 of 2,419 | #48 of 50 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 77.3% | #573 of 2,132 | #18 of 47 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
154
-2 (-1%) vs 2020
-45% since 1990-91, when it was 278
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 154 | 11.3 | 13.6:1 | 77% (119) |
| 2023-24 | 151 | 11.7 | 12.9:1 | 81% (123) |
| 2022-23 | 158 | 11.3 | 14.0:1 | 89% (140) |
| 2020-21 | 156 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 173 | 11 | 15.7:1 | 16% (27) |
| 2015-16 | 174 | 11 | 15.8:1 | 78% (136) |
| 2010-11 | 157 | 11 | 14.3:1 | 88% (138) |
| 2000-01 | 237 | 13 | 18.2:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 278 | 12 | 23.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Henry Raab Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 11% (173 to 154); teachers up 2% (11 to 11.3).
About Henry Raab Elementary School
Henry Raab Elementary School is a low-enrollment elementary school with an address in Belleville, Illinois. The school covers kindergarten through 6 and reported 154 students in 2024-25. On average, elementary schools in Illinois enroll around 381, and this school is 60% below that mark.
The 11 schools of Belleville SD 118, including Henry Raab Elementary School, enroll 3,275 students.
At Henry Raab Elementary School, 54% of students are Black. After that, the student body is 28% White, 12% multiracial, and 6% Hispanic. Census figures show St. Clair County is about 28% Black. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 61%.
Its staff includes 11.3 full-time-equivalent teachers, for about 13.6 students per teacher. It is about the same as the 13.9:1 average for elementary schools in Illinois. Henry Raab Elementary School has a free or reduced-price lunch rate of 77%. The average for public schools in St. Clair County is 54%.
Henry Raab Elementary School outperforms its prediction by 21.6 points. The model expects 26.9% for a school with its free or reduced-price lunch share in Illinois; the school's rate is 48.5%.
St. Clair County is the school's county. There, the median household earns about $73,854 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 32% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 10%. Henry Raab Elementary School shares St. Clair County with 95 other public schools.
A public school about 0.7 miles away, Roosevelt Elementary School, is the closest to Henry Raab Elementary School. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. Its average proficiency rate of 48.5% is above the 34.9% average for nearby schools.
Henry Raab Elementary School is coded as Suburb: Large in federal locale data.
Federal data show 156 students in 2020-21 and 154 in 2024-25, a difference of under 3%.
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St. Clair County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
253,694
Census ACS
Median income
$73,854
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
32%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
96
40,879 students
Quick facts
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- Abraham Lincoln Elementary SchoolElementary · 542 students
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- Abraham Lincoln Elementary SchoolElementary · 542 students
- Whiteside Middle SchoolMiddle · 475 students
Nearby schools
- Roosevelt Elementary School0.7 mi · 272
- Franklin Elementary School0.8 mi · 172
- Union Elementary School1.1 mi · 432
- Washington School1.3 mi · 192
- High Mount Elementary School1.6 mi · 325
- Westhaven Elementary1.9 mi · 313
Frequently asked questions
About Henry Raab Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Henry Raab Elementary School?
Henry Raab Elementary School enrolls approximately 154 students in grades KG-06.
Is Henry Raab Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Henry Raab Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades KG-06.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Henry Raab Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Henry Raab Elementary School is approximately 13.6:1 (11 FTE teachers).
How diverse is Henry Raab Elementary School?
Henry Raab Elementary School reports a student body of 28% White, 6% Hispanic, 54% Black, 12% Two or more.
What district is Henry Raab Elementary School in?
Henry Raab Elementary School is part of Belleville SD 118.
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