Lostant Elem School

Lostant Elem School is one of the rural-scale K-5 schools in Lostant, Illinois, one of the schools within Lostant CUSD 425, with 63 students on its rolls from grades K through 8. That puts it 83% below the typical public school in Illinois, which averages around 381 students.

Operationally, Lostant Elem School answers to Lostant CUSD 425, which sets policy, hires staff, and reports enrollment to the state.

On the student-mix side, Lostant Elem School logs that 97% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. By comparison, LaSalle County as a whole is about 86% White, so the school skews meaningfully more White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, The school reports having 5 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.9:1, putting Lostant Elem School tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 35% of students at Lostant Elem School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against LaSalle County (around 53%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Lostant Elem School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 51.4%; this one delivers 47.5%.

Around the school, the surrounding county (LaSalle County) logs that median household earnings sit near $73,045, about 21% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. In all, LaSalle County runs 54 public schools (combined enrollment of about 14,523 students), of which Lostant Elem School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Tonica Grade School, around 5.4 miles off. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Lostant Elem School ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 41.6%.

The school occupies a low-density site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Lostant Elem School's enrollment has ticked up 11% since 2018, when it stood at 57 (now 63). White enrollment moved from 91% to 97% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 7.6:1 in 2018 to 12.6:1 today.

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