Heyworth Elem School

Heyworth Elem School operates as a middle-of-the-pack K-5 school in Heyworth, Illinois, part of Heyworth CUSD 4. Current enrollment sits at 472 students spanning grades pre-K through 6. By comparison, Illinois's public schools average about 381 students each, so Heyworth Elem School sits 24% bigger than that benchmark.

Heyworth CUSD 4 comprises 2 schools with combined enrollment of 873 students; Heyworth Elem School is among them.

Looking at the student body, Heyworth Elem School logs that 86% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder looks like 7% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. By comparison, McLean County as a whole is about 78% White, so the school skews meaningfully more White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, Heyworth Elem School has 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.4:1. The state averages about 13.9:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 24% of students at Heyworth Elem School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is lower than McLean County's rate of about 40%.

With demographic context factored in, Heyworth Elem School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 57.6% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 56.5%.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for McLean County put the typical household earns roughly $79,905 per year, about 47% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across McLean County's 60 public schools (combined enrollment of about 23,759 students), Heyworth Elem School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Heyworth Jr-Sr High School, roughly 0.6 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, Heyworth Elem School comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 52.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a low-density area.

Over the past 7-year window. Heyworth Elem School's enrollment has declined 14% since 2018, when it stood at 551 (now 472). White enrollment moved from 92% to 86% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 16.7:1 in 2018 to 14.4:1 in 2025.

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