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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