Jerseyville East Elem School
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Test scores
IAR + ISA 2024-25 . % Proficient (Levels 4-5)What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 56 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 52 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 16 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 16 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 49% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 43% 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%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Jerseyville East Elem School
Located at 201 N Giddings Ave, in Jerseyville, Illinois, Jerseyville East Elem School is an average-sized elementary school that works with 392 students (grades 2 through 4), part of Jersey CUSD 100.
Jersey CUSD 100 comprises 5 schools with combined enrollment of 2,365 students; Jerseyville East Elem School is among them.
On the student-mix side, Jerseyville East Elem School reports that the student body is overwhelmingly White (91%). Other groups include 5% multiracial, 3% Hispanic.
Looking at school resources, Jerseyville East Elem School reports 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.5:1. The state averages around 13.9:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 49% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.
With demographic context factored in, Jerseyville East Elem School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 42.9%; this one delivers 49.5%.
Around the school, the surrounding county (Jersey County) records that median household income runs about $80,361, 23% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Jersey County's 10 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,377 students), Jerseyville East Elem School is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: Jersey Comm High School, around 0.4 miles off. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Jerseyville East Elem School comes 2nd of 7 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 44.7%.
Jerseyville East Elem School operates from a town-based location.
Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Jerseyville East Elem School has fell 12%, going from 445 students in 2018 to 392 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 96% to 91% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 18.3:1 in 2018 to 15.5:1 today.
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