Norris City-Omaha Elem School

Norris City-Omaha Elem School is a K-5 school of moderately sized scale in Norris City, Illinois, part of Norris City-Omaha-Enfield CUSD 3, teacheing 416 students in grades K through 8.

Norris City-Omaha-Enfield CUSD 3 runs 2 schools in total, collectively educating 611 students. Norris City-Omaha Elem School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Norris City-Omaha Elem School logs that 95% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school records 4% multiracial. Compared to White County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.9:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. About 55% 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, Norris City-Omaha Elem School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 39.9%, the actual is 28.6%, a residual of -11.2 points.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (White County) shows that median household income runs about $54,813, roughly 18% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 13% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, White County runs 15 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,168 students), of which Norris City-Omaha Elem School is one.

Norris City-Omaha-Enfield H S is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. On composite proficiency, Norris City-Omaha Elem School comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 41.0%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count rose 12%: 372 students in 2018 compared to 416 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 16.3:1 in 2018 to 13.9:1 today.

Within the allk12 community for this school, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.