Middletown Prairie Elementary

Middletown Prairie Elementary is an elementary school of sprawling scale in Mahomet, Illinois, run under Mahomet-Seymour CUSD 3, hosting 805 students in grades pre-K through 2. By comparison, Illinois's public schools average about 381 students each, so Middletown Prairie Elementary sits 111% bigger than that benchmark.

Mahomet-Seymour CUSD 3 comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 3,468 students; Middletown Prairie Elementary is among them.

Looking at the student body, Middletown Prairie Elementary records that 81% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder looks like 7% multiracial, 6% Hispanic, 3% Asian, 2% Black. The wider county runs roughly 64% White, putting the school's mix considerably more White than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Middletown Prairie Elementary has 54 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.9:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.9:1 average. An estimated 22% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is lower than Champaign County's rate of about 53%.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Champaign County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $63,683 per year, about 46% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across Champaign County's 66 public schools (combined enrollment of about 25,919 students), Middletown Prairie Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Lincoln Trail Elem School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 2.0 miles from this campus. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Five-year trend. Middletown Prairie Elementary's enrollment has rose 184% since 2018, when it stood at 283 (now 805). White enrollment moved from 88% to 81% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 20.1:1 in 2018 to 14.9:1 today.

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