Mount Pulaski Elem School

Located at 119 N Garden St, in Mount Pulaski, Illinois, Mount Pulaski Elem School is a reasonably sized elementary-level community that enrolls 369 students (grades pre-K through 8), part of Mt Pulaski CUSD 23.

Mount Pulaski Elem School is one of 2 schools operated by Mt Pulaski CUSD 23, a district that enrolls 547 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Mount Pulaski Elem School shows that 93% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school records 2% Black, 2% Hispanic, 2% multiracial.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Mount Pulaski Elem School has 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.2:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.9:1 average. About 40% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Logan County (around 51%), the school's rate is south of typical.

With demographic context factored in, Mount Pulaski Elem School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 48.2% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 51.0%.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Logan County) reports that median household earnings sit near $66,358, about 21% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Mount Pulaski Elem School is one of 15 public schools in Logan County (combined enrollment of about 3,448 students).

Nearest neighbor: Mount Pulaski High School, around 0.4 miles off. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Mount Pulaski Elem School ranks 4th on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 46.1%.

The campus sits in a rural setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Mount Pulaski Elem School's enrollment has climbed 4% since 2018, when it stood at 356 (now 369). The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 15.6:1 in 2018 to 12.2:1 today.

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