Irving Elementary School

Irving Elementary School, a small primary school in Bloomington, Illinois, run under Bloomington SD 87, works with 303 students, covering grades K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 381 students per school, that is 20% smaller than typical.

Bloomington SD 87 comprises 9 schools with combined enrollment of 4,809 students; Irving Elementary School is among them.

In terms of who attends, Irving Elementary School lists that 34% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school lists 26% White, 21% multiracial, 18% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 9% Black, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Black than the area baseline.

On the resource side, The school employs 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.9:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.9:1 average. Roughly 76% of students at Irving Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is above McLean County's rate of about 40%.

After controlling for student poverty, Irving Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 27.5%; this one delivers 22.8%.

In the broader community, census data for McLean County shows the typical household earns roughly $79,905 per year, 47% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across McLean County's 60 public schools (combined enrollment of about 23,759 students), Irving Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Sarah A Raymond Sch of Early Educ, around 0.7 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Irving Elementary School comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 34.9%.

Irving Elementary School operates from a city-core location.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Irving Elementary School has decreased 20%, going from 380 students in 2018 to 303 in 2025. The White share of enrollment shrank from 36% to 26% over that span. Class-load math has fell: from 13.8:1 in 2018 to 11.9:1 in 2025.

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