McGaughey Elem School

McGaughey Elem School is an elementary campus of medium-sized scale in Mount Zion, Illinois, part of Mt Zion CUSD 3, serveing 371 students in grades pre-K through 1.

Mt Zion CUSD 3 runs 5 schools in total, collectively educating 2,427 students. McGaughey Elem School is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, McGaughey Elem School shows that 91% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest looks like 4% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. That is meaningfully more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 74%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.1:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.9:1, putting McGaughey Elem School higher than the state norm the norm. Around 39% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Macon County (around 61%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Macon County put the typical household earns roughly $62,666 per year, about 24% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. In all, Macon County runs 43 public schools (combined enrollment of about 14,702 students), of which McGaughey Elem School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Mt Zion Elem School, around 0.6 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around McGaughey Elem School.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.

Looking at the recent track record. McGaughey Elem School's enrollment has expanded 11% since 2018, when it stood at 335 (now 371). The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 14.8:1 in 2018 to 17.1:1 today.

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