Jefferson Elem School

Jefferson Elem School is one of the low-enrollment elementary-level communitys in Pekin, Illinois, operated by Pekin PSD 108, with 290 students on its rolls from grades K through 3. Enrollment runs roughly 24% below the state mean of about 381.

Within Pekin PSD 108, which oversees 11 schools and 3,126 students, Jefferson Elem School is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Jefferson Elem School records that nearly all students (87%) are White. Beyond that, the school logs 6% multiracial, 4% Hispanic, 3% Black.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.9:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.9:1 average. Roughly 73% of students at Jefferson Elem School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is higher than Tazewell County's rate of about 39%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Jefferson Elem School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 29.1%, the actual is 27.3%, a residual of -1.8 points.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Tazewell County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $77,982 per year, 28% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Across Tazewell County's 56 public schools (combined enrollment of about 18,581 students), Jefferson Elem School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Washington Intermediate School, roughly 0.3 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Jefferson Elem School comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 31.2%.

Jefferson Elem School operates from an outer-ring location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Jefferson Elem School has ticked down 13%, going from 333 students in 2018 to 290 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 16.7:1 in 2018 to 14.9:1 in 2025.

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