Morrisonville Elem School

Set in Morrisonville, Illinois, Morrisonville Elem School is a close-knit elementary campus, overseen by Morrisonville CUSD 1. It teaches 155 students across grades pre-K through 6. That puts it 59% leaner than the typical public school in Illinois, which averages around 381 students.

Morrisonville CUSD 1 runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 287 students. Morrisonville Elem School is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Morrisonville Elem School shows that 96% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 12 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.3:1. The state averages about 13.9:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 32% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Christian County (around 50%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Morrisonville Elem School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 53.3%, the actual is 49.5%, a residual of -3.8 points.

Zooming out to the county, Christian County reports that the typical household earns roughly $62,611 per year, about 17% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across Christian County's 19 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,740 students), Morrisonville Elem School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Morrisonville High School, roughly 0.1 miles away. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Morrisonville Elem School comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 33.2%.

The school occupies an outlying site.

Five-year trend. Morrisonville Elem School's enrollment has declined 19% since 2018, when it stood at 191 (now 155). The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 17.1:1 in 2018 to 13.3:1 today.

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