Nauvoo Elem School

Nauvoo Elem School is one of the close-knit elementary-level communitys in Nauvoo, Illinois, overseen by Nauvoo-Colusa CUSD 325, with 208 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 45% smaller than the state mean of about 381.

Nauvoo Elem School sits inside Nauvoo-Colusa CUSD 325, the local public-school operator responsible for the campus.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Nauvoo Elem School shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (90%). Beyond that, the school logs 4% multiracial, 3% Hispanic, 3% Black.

On the resource side, The school employs 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 9.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.9:1 average. About 52% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

After controlling for student poverty, Nauvoo Elem School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 41.5%; this one delivers 42.5%.

In the surrounding community, census data for Hancock County shows median household income runs about $65,865, 25% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. In all, Hancock County runs 15 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,703 students), of which Nauvoo Elem School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Lincoln Elementary School, around 5.1 miles off. 6 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, Nauvoo Elem School comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 64.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a low-density area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Nauvoo Elem School has fell 15%, going from 246 students in 2018 to 208 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share decreased from 95% to 90%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 11.2:1 in 2018 to 9.4:1 today.

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