Mark Denman Elementary School

Located at 930 Colfax Dr, in Danville, Illinois, Mark Denman Elementary School is a middle-of-the-pack elementary campus that works with 545 students (grades K through 4), one of the schools within Danville CCSD 118. By comparison, Illinois's public schools average about 381 students each, so Mark Denman Elementary School sits 43% above that benchmark.

Danville CCSD 118 runs 9 schools in total, collectively educating 4,940 students. Mark Denman Elementary School is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Mark Denman Elementary School logs that 54% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder is composed of 25% White, 14% multiracial, 8% Hispanic. By comparison, Vermilion County as a whole is about 15% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Mark Denman Elementary School has 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.9:1, putting Mark Denman Elementary School higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 95% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Vermilion County runs at roughly 71%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Mark Denman Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 16.5%; this one delivers 17.0%.

In the broader community, census data for Vermilion County shows median household earnings sit near $56,877, roughly 19% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. Across Vermilion County's 41 public schools (combined enrollment of about 11,267 students), Mark Denman Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Northeast Elem Magnet School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Mark Denman Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Mark Denman Elementary School comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 19.1%.

The campus sits in a town-center setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 20%: 682 students in 2018 compared to 545 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 13.6:1 in 2018 to 16.7:1 today.

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