Lowpoint-Washburn Elem School

Lowpoint-Washburn Elem School, a modestly sized elementary school in Washburn, Illinois, one of the schools within Lowpoint-Washburn CUSD 21, enrolls 157 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 59% leaner than the typical public school in Illinois, which averages around 381 students.

Within Lowpoint-Washburn CUSD 21, which oversees 2 schools and 313 students, Lowpoint-Washburn Elem School is one campus in the system.

Demographically, Lowpoint-Washburn Elem School shows that 92% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder reads as 4% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. That composition is broadly in line with Woodford County as a whole.

On the resource side, Lowpoint-Washburn Elem School reports 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.9:1, putting Lowpoint-Washburn Elem School tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 56% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Woodford County runs at roughly 29%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Lowpoint-Washburn Elem School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 39.1%; this one delivers 41.5%.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Woodford County) logs that median household income runs about $91,483, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. Across Woodford County's 32 public schools (combined enrollment of about 6,338 students), Lowpoint-Washburn Elem School is one campus in the mix.

Lowpoint-Washburn Jr Sr High Sch is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Within ten miles, there are 8 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. On composite proficiency, Lowpoint-Washburn Elem School comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 52.2%.

The school occupies a low-density site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 17%: 190 students in 2018 compared to 157 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 98% to 92% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 12.7:1 in 2018 to 11.0:1 in 2025.

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