Hines Primary School

Hines Primary School is an elementary campus of mid-sized scale in Peoria, Illinois, overseen by Peoria SD 150, teacheing 403 students in grades K through 4.

Peoria SD 150 runs 25 schools in total, collectively educating 13,312 students. Hines Primary School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Hines Primary School records that 57% of the student body identifies as Black. Beyond that, the school shows 17% White, 15% multiracial, 10% Hispanic. By comparison, Peoria County as a whole is about 17% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, The school reports having 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.9:1, putting Hines Primary School higher than the state norm the norm. About 89% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is above Peoria County's rate of about 57%.

With demographic context factored in, Hines Primary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 20.2%, the actual is 20.6%, a residual of +0.4 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Peoria County indicate the typical household earns roughly $65,108 per year, 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. In all, Peoria County runs 81 public schools (combined enrollment of about 27,827 students), of which Hines Primary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Peoria Heights Grade School, around 0.5 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Hines Primary School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Hines Primary School at 7th of 9; the average score across the group is 28.3%.

Hines Primary School operates from a downtown location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Hines Primary School has ticked down 11%, going from 454 students in 2018 to 403 in 2025. The White share of enrollment ticked down from 22% to 17% over that span.

On the community side, recent activity here tends to focus on sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.