Irvington Elem School

Set in Irvington, Illinois, Irvington Elem School is a minimally staffed K-5 school, one of the schools within Irvington CCSD 11. It serves 64 students across grades K through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 83% below the state mean of about 381.

Irvington CCSD 11 is the operating authority for Irvington Elem School, handling staffing, calendars, and reporting to the state department of education.

On demographics, Irvington Elem School lists that the student body is overwhelmingly White (91%); the rest reads as 8% multiracial.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Irvington Elem School has 6 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 10.7:1. The state averages around 13.9:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 72% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Washington County (around 35%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

With demographic context factored in, Irvington Elem School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 30.0%, the actual is 27.8%, a residual of -2.3 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Washington County indicate the typical household earns roughly $78,224 per year, about 24% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Washington County runs 7 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,739 students), of which Irvington Elem School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Grand Prairie Elem School, around 3.5 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Irvington Elem School ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 32.6%.

The campus sits in an outlying setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Irvington Elem School's enrollment has rose 12% since 2018, when it stood at 57 (now 64). Hispanic enrollment moved from 5% to 0% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 9.5:1 in 2018 to 10.7:1 today.

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