Lexington Elem School

Lexington Elem School is one of the close-knit K-5 schools in Lexington, Illinois, overseen by Lexington CUSD 7, with 238 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Illinois's public schools average about 381 students each, so Lexington Elem School sits 38% below that benchmark.

Lexington Elem School is one of 3 schools operated by Lexington CUSD 7, a district that serves 511 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Lexington Elem School logs that 92% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest comes out to 5% multiracial. By comparison, McLean County as a whole is about 78% White, so the school skews meaningfully more White than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school currently runs with 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.2:1. The state averages around 13.9:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 25% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against McLean County (around 40%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Lexington Elem School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 57.2%, the actual is 60.5%, a residual of +3.3 points.

In the broader community, census data for McLean County shows the typical household earns roughly $79,905 per year, about 47% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Lexington Elem School is one of 60 public schools in McLean County (combined enrollment of about 23,759 students).

The closest other public school is Lexington High School, roughly 0.0 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Lexington Elem School. On composite proficiency, Lexington Elem School comes 3rd of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 52.3%.

The school occupies a low-density site.

Over the past 7-year window. Lexington Elem School's enrollment has shrank 7% since 2018, when it stood at 255 (now 238).

On allk12, members of the Lexington Elem School community share and discuss science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.