Lewis-Clark Elem School

As an intimate elementary school in Wood River, Illinois, Lewis-Clark Elem School works with 236 students from grades K through 5, run under Wood River-Hartford ESD 15. By comparison, Illinois's public schools average about 381 students each, so Lewis-Clark Elem School sits 38% smaller than that benchmark.

Within Wood River-Hartford ESD 15, which oversees 3 schools and 579 students, Lewis-Clark Elem School is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, Lewis-Clark Elem School shows that the largest single group is White, at 75% of enrollment. The remainder comes out to 11% multiracial, 8% Black, 5% Hispanic.

In terms of school funding signals, The school lists 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 9.8:1. The state averages around 13.9:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 80% of students at Lewis-Clark Elem School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is north of Madison County's rate of about 46%.

After controlling for student poverty, Lewis-Clark Elem School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 25.3%, the actual is 33.7%, a residual of +8.4 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Madison County indicate the typical household earns roughly $75,793 per year, about 31% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. In all, Madison County runs 84 public schools (combined enrollment of about 35,253 students), of which Lewis-Clark Elem School is one.

The closest other public school is Lewis-Clark Jr High School, roughly 0.0 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Lewis-Clark Elem School ranks 4th on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 32.4%.

The school occupies a suburban site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 15%: 279 students in 2018 compared to 236 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share shrank from 89% to 75%. Class-load math has tightened: from 13.8:1 in 2018 to 9.8:1 in 2025.

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