Matherville Intermediate School

Matherville Intermediate School operates as a micro-enrollment middle-grades school in Matherville, Illinois, overseen by Sherrard CUSD 200. Current enrollment sits at 182 students spanning grades 5 through 6. By comparison, Illinois's public schools average about 462 students each, so Matherville Intermediate School sits 61% leaner than that benchmark.

Sherrard CUSD 200 runs 5 schools in total, collectively educating 1,305 students. Matherville Intermediate School is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Matherville Intermediate School reports that 87% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder looks like 9% Hispanic, 3% multiracial.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Matherville Intermediate School has 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.6:1. The state averages about 13.0:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 31% of students at Matherville Intermediate School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is lower than Mercer County's rate of about 44%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Matherville Intermediate School is in the bottom 10% of Illinois public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 53.8%; Matherville Intermediate School posts 39.2%, -14.6 points below that line.

In the surrounding community, census data for Mercer County shows the typical household earns roughly $74,182 per year, about 21% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across Mercer County's 8 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,941 students), Matherville Intermediate School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Winola Elementary School, roughly 4.6 miles away. Within ten miles, there are 8 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. On composite proficiency, Matherville Intermediate School comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 40.0%.

Geographically, the school is in an outlying area.

Over the past 7-year window. Matherville Intermediate School's enrollment has shrank 20% since 2018, when it stood at 228 (now 182). Class-load math has pulled in: from 15.5:1 in 2018 to 13.6:1 in 2025.

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