Enrollment
290
Elementary
DISTRICT 206 · STATE 381
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PEKIN PSD 108·NCES 173108003234
Jefferson Elementary School
900 S Capitol St, Pekin, IL 61554 · (309) 477-4712 · Tazewell County
GRADES KG–03ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL290 STUDENTS
C
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 27% of Illinois public elementary schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Illinois public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
14.9:1
20 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.9:1 · STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
73%
213 students
DISTRICT 67% · 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 | 64 | 22% |
| Grade 1 | 70 | 24% |
| Grade 2 | 77 | 27% |
| Grade 3 | 79 | 27% |
Student demographics
25%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 24% · 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
Test scores
IAR + ISA 2024-25 . % Proficient (Levels 4-5)English Language Arts
37.8%
IL avg 51.0% . +22.6pp since 2023
Math
31.1%
IL avg 37.9% . +20.5pp since 2023
What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 38 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 31 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 23 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 21 points.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 37.8% | 31.1% |
| 2023-24 | 15.2% | 10.6% |
% 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
27.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
29.1%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-1.8pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 27% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 29% typical for Illinois schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Illinois's top nor bottom 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 Jefferson Elementary School
Jefferson Elementary School's state test result (27.3% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jefferson Elementary School this school | 290 | 73.4% | 27.3% |
| Zeigler-Royalton Elementary School Mulkeytown | 258 | 72.5% | 27.3% |
| C B Smith Elementary School Pekin | 264 | 75.4% | 28.9% |
| Memorial Elementary School Paris | 293 | 77.1% | N/A |
| Carolyn Wenz Elementary School Paris | 258 | 69.0% | 42.7% |
| Northwest Elementary School Lincoln | 271 | 74.9% | 46.2% |
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 Jefferson Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Illinois | In Tazewell County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 27.3% | #1,371 of 1,925 | #21 of 25 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 31.1% | #1,239 of 2,077 ▲ 348 | #17 of 25 ▲ 7 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 37.8% | #1,423 of 2,077 ▲ 327 | #19 of 25 ▲ 5 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 290 | #1,602 of 2,419 | #9 of 29 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.9:1 | #1,512 of 2,035 | #8 of 15 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 24.5% | #1,508 of 2,042 | #8 of 15 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 73.4% | #664 of 2,132 | #4 of 28 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -12.9% | #772 of 1,461 | #9 of 16 |
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
290
-48 (-14%) vs 2020
-39% since 1990-91, when it was 476
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 | 290 | 19.5 | 14.9:1 | 73% (213) |
| 2023-24 | 304 | 19.5 | 15.6:1 | 77% (233) |
| 2022-23 | 315 | 19 | 16.6:1 | 78% (245) |
| 2020-21 | 338 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 333 | 20 | 16.7:1 | 64% (213) |
| 2015-16 | 374 | 19 | 19.7:1 | 68% (255) |
| 2010-11 | 334 | 20 | 16.7:1 | 74% (246) |
| 2000-01 | 391 | 28 | 14.0:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 476 | 28 | 17.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Jefferson Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 13% (333 to 290); teachers down 2% (20 to 19.5).
About Jefferson Elementary School
Jefferson Elementary School is a low-enrollment elementary school in Illinois, located in Pekin. It serves 290 students in kindergarten through 3. For comparison, elementary schools in Illinois average about 381 students.
Jefferson Elementary School is one school in Pekin PSD 108, a system of 11 schools with 3,126 students.
The student body at Jefferson Elementary School is 87% White. Other reported shares: 6% multiracial, 4% Hispanic, and 3% Black. Pick two students at random and there is a 25% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
The school employs the equivalent of 19.5 full-time teachers, for a ratio of 14.9:1. That is 0.9 students per teacher above the 13.9:1 average for elementary schools in Illinois. The free or reduced-price lunch rate at Jefferson Elementary School is 73%. That is higher than the 39% average for public schools in Tazewell County.
allk12 grades Jefferson Elementary School a C. The grade compares the school only with Illinois public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
In Illinois, Jefferson Elementary School is in the middle band of BeatsExpectations: 27.3% actual against a predicted 29.1%.
Across Tazewell County, the median household income is $77,982, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 28% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 6%. Tazewell County is home to 56 public schools and about 18,581 public school students.
Washington Intermediate School is the public school closest to Jefferson Elementary School, about 0.3 miles away. There are at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Nearby schools average 31.2% on proficiency, and Jefferson Elementary School is below that at 27.3%.
The school's setting, by NCES definition, is Suburb: Large: in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Over 4 years, Jefferson Elementary School's enrollment dropped 14%, to 290.
Discussions about Jefferson Elementary School may include science fairs, picture day, and bus routes. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
Tazewell County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
130,290
Census ACS
Median income
$77,982
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
28%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
56
18,581 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Pekin PSD 108
- Wilson Intermediate SchoolMiddle · 600 students
- Washington Intermediate SchoolMiddle · 428 students
- Broadmoor Junior High SchoolMiddle · 387 students
- Edison Junior High SchoolMiddle · 271 students
- C B Smith Elementary SchoolElementary · 264 students
- Pekin Preschool Family Ed CenterElementary · 201 students
Other schools in Pekin
- Pekin Community High SchoolHigh · 1,712 students
- Wilson Intermediate SchoolMiddle · 600 students
- Washington Intermediate SchoolMiddle · 428 students
- Broadmoor Junior High SchoolMiddle · 387 students
- Edison Junior High SchoolMiddle · 271 students
- C B Smith Elementary SchoolElementary · 264 students
Other Jefferson Elementary schools
143 other US public schools in 31 states are named Jefferson Elementary. Jefferson Elementary School is the 108th largest of the 144.
- Jefferson Elementary SchoolCharleston, IL · 698 students
- Jefferson Elementary SchoolBerwyn, IL · 453 students
- Jefferson Elementary SchoolSterling, IL · 450 students
- Jefferson Elementary SchoolMarion, IL · 376 students
- Jefferson Elementary SchoolMorton, IL · 354 students
Nearby schools
- Washington Intermediate School0.3 mi · 428
- Wilson Intermediate School0.8 mi · 600
- Pekin Preschool Family Ed Center0.9 mi · 201
- Dirksen Elementary School0.9 mi · 165
- Edison Junior High School1.5 mi · 271
- C B Smith Elementary School1.6 mi · 264
Frequently asked questions
About Jefferson Elementary SchoolHow large is Jefferson Elementary School?
Jefferson Elementary School enrolls approximately 290 students in grades KG-03.
Is Jefferson Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Jefferson Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades KG-03.
How many teachers does Jefferson Elementary School have?
Jefferson Elementary School employs 20 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 14.9:1.
What is the student diversity at Jefferson Elementary School?
Student demographics at Jefferson Elementary School are roughly 87% White, 4% Hispanic, 3% Black, 1% Asian, 6% Two or more.
Who oversees Jefferson Elementary School?
Jefferson Elementary School is overseen by Pekin PSD 108 in Tazewell County.
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