Enrollment
204
Elementary
STATE 381
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW HOPE CCSD 6·NCES 172811002964
New Hope Elementary School
1804 County Road 445 N, Fairfield, IL 62837 · (618) 842-3296 · Wayne County
GRADES KG–08ELEMENTARY42-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL204 STUDENTS
A+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 96% of Illinois public elementary schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Illinois public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
15.8:1
13 FTE teachers
STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
43%
88 students
STATE 56%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 6 | 3% |
| Kindergarten | 15 | 7% |
| Grade 1 | 14 | 7% |
| Grade 2 | 22 | 11% |
| Grade 3 | 26 | 13% |
| Grade 4 | 23 | 11% |
| Grade 5 | 31 | 15% |
| Grade 6 | 22 | 11% |
| Grade 7 | 19 | 9% |
| Grade 8 | 26 | 13% |
This year's kindergarten class (15) is 42% smaller than its 8th grade class (26).
Student demographics
9%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
STATE 69% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
IAR + ISA 2024-25 . % Proficient (Levels 4-5)English Language Arts
79.6%
IL avg 51.0% . +10.0pp since 2023
Math
72.5%
IL avg 37.9% . +6.1pp since 2023
What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 80 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 73 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Illinois schools, those numbers are about 51 and 38. Reading and writing scores are up about 10 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 6 points.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 79.6% | 72.5% |
| 2023-24 | 69.6% | 66.4% |
% Proficient (Levels 4-5), all students and all tested grades.
Source: IAR + ISA. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of IL schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
73.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
46.6%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+26.7pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 73% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 47% typical for Illinois schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 27 points, placing it in Illinois's top 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like New Hope Elementary School
New Hope Elementary School's state test result (73.3% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Hope Elementary School this school | 204 | 43.1% | 73.3% |
| Gregory Intermediate Moweaqua | 200 | 42.0% | 47.2% |
| Central Elementary School Camp Point | 227 | 43.6% | 46.2% |
| New Simpson Hill Dist 32 Tunnel Hill | 228 | 44.3% | 49.4% |
| Cambridge Comm Grade School Cambridge | 222 | 45.5% | 66.9% |
| Waverly Elementary School Waverly | 182 | 44.5% | 19.8% |
Matched among Illinois elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where New Hope Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Illinois | In Wayne County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 73.3% | #84 of 1,925 | #1 of 6 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 72.5% | #176 of 2,077 ▼ 89 | #1 of 6 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 79.6% | #144 of 2,077 ▼ 32 | #1 of 6 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 204 | #2,035 of 2,419 | #3 of 7 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.8:1 | #1,697 of 2,035 | N/A |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 9.5% | #1,900 of 2,042 | N/A |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 43.1% | #1,485 of 2,132 | #5 of 6 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
204
+23 (+13%) vs 2020
+20% since 1990-91, when it was 170
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 204 | 12.9 | 15.8:1 | 43% (88) |
| 2023-24 | 193 | 13.4 | 14.5:1 | 36% (69) |
| 2022-23 | 198 | 13.3 | 14.9:1 | 32% (64) |
| 2020-21 | 181 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 166 | 13.1 | 12.7:1 | 36% (59) |
| 2015-16 | 172 | 14 | 12.3:1 | 38% (65) |
| 2010-11 | 181 | 10 | 18.1:1 | 26% (47) |
| 2000-01 | 186 | 13 | 14.3:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 170 | 10 | 17.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for New Hope Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 23% (166 to 204); teachers down 2% (13.1 to 12.9).
About New Hope Elementary School
New Hope Elementary School is a public elementary school in Fairfield, Illinois. Students in kindergarten through 8 attend the school, which enrolls 204 students. Enrollment is 46% lower than the average for elementary schools in Illinois, which is about 381.
New Hope Elementary School belongs to New Hope CCSD 6.
White students make up 95% of enrollment at New Hope Elementary School. The remaining students are 2% Hispanic. For comparison, Wayne County is about 95% White. Pick two students at random and there is a 9% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
The ratio of students to teachers is 15.8:1, with 12.9 full-time-equivalent teachers on staff. The school has more students per teacher than the 13.9:1 average for elementary schools in Illinois. Lunch subsidy eligibility at New Hope Elementary School is 43%.
The allk12 Grade for New Hope Elementary School is A+. Compared with Illinois public elementary schools, the school scored higher than 96% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
New Hope Elementary School is a top-10% school in Illinois on BeatsExpectations, beating its predicted average proficiency rate on state tests of 46.6% with an actual 73.3%.
Wayne County census figures show that the median household income is $55,521, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 16% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 12%. Wayne County is home to 12 public schools and about 2,404 public school students.
The nearest public school is Fairfield Comm High School, at about 4.0 miles. Other public schools within five miles: 3. On average proficiency, New Hope Elementary School is 1st of 9 nearby schools with test data.
NCES assigns New Hope Elementary School the locale Rural: Distant, meaning in rural territory some distance from an urban area.
Federal data show a 13% enrollment increase, from 181 in 2020-21 to 204 in 2024-25.
Community posts for New Hope Elementary School can cover enrollment questions, class placement, and PTA news. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
Wayne County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
15,973
Census ACS
Median income
$55,521
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
16%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
12%
Below federal line
Schools in county
12
2,404 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Fairfield
- Fairfield Comm High SchoolHigh · 444 students
- North Side Elementary SchoolElementary · 321 students
- Center Street Elementary SchoolMiddle · 296 students
- Jasper Elementary SchoolElementary · 170 students
Other New Hope Elementary schools
10 other US public schools in 6 states are named New Hope Elementary. New Hope Elementary School is the 9th largest of the 11.
- New Hope ElementaryCOLUMBUS, MS · 1,191 students
- New Hope Elementary SchoolComming, GA · 1,175 students
- New Hope ElementaryLocust Grove, GA · 621 students
- New Hope ElementaryGastonia, NC · 571 students
- New Hope Elementary SchoolNew Hope, AL · 534 students
Nearby schools
- Fairfield Comm High School4.0 mi · 444
- Center Street Elementary School4.2 mi · 296
- North Side Elementary School4.9 mi · 321
- Jasper Elementary School6.2 mi · 170
- Geff Elementary School8.8 mi · 100
- Wayne City High School11.8 mi · 135
Frequently asked questions
About New Hope Elementary SchoolHow many students attend New Hope Elementary School?
New Hope Elementary School enrolls approximately 204 students in grades KG-08.
What grades does New Hope Elementary School serve?
New Hope Elementary School serves grades KG-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at New Hope Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at New Hope Elementary School is approximately 15.8:1 (13 FTE teachers).
How diverse is New Hope Elementary School?
New Hope Elementary School reports a student body of 95% White, 2% Hispanic, 1% Black.
Who oversees New Hope Elementary School?
New Hope Elementary School is overseen by New Hope CCSD 6 in Wayne County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.