Mt Carmel Grade School

Mt Carmel Grade School, a medium-sized elementary-level community in Mount Carmel, Illinois, part of Wabash CUSD 348, teaches 370 students, covering grades 3 through 6.

Within Wabash CUSD 348, which oversees 4 schools and 1,382 students, Mt Carmel Grade School is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Mt Carmel Grade School reports that 91% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school reports 4% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. Compared to Wabash County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the resource side, The school reports having 8 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 48.4:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.9:1 average. Roughly 61% of students at Mt Carmel Grade School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Mt Carmel Grade School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 36.4%, the actual is 45.8%, a residual of +9.4 points.

In the broader community, Wabash County reports that the typical household earns roughly $57,086 per year, roughly 19% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Wabash County runs 5 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,513 students), of which Mt Carmel Grade School is one.

The closest other public school is Mt Carmel Elementary School, roughly 0.3 miles away. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Mt Carmel Grade School ranks 1st on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 33.9%.

Mt Carmel Grade School operates from a town-center location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 4%: 387 students in 2018 compared to 370 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 16.4:1 in 2018 to 48.4:1 today.

Inside the community feed, the feed for Mt Carmel Grade School typically covers fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.