Northpoint Elementary School

Northpoint Elementary School is a middle-of-the-pack elementary-level community in Bloomington, Illinois, run under McLean County USD 5. The school caters to 472 students in grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 24% bigger than the state mean of about 381.

Northpoint Elementary School is one of 24 schools operated by McLean County USD 5, a district that instructs 12,407 students overall.

On demographics, Northpoint Elementary School logs that 63% of the student body identifies as White. Other groups include 18% Asian, 6% Hispanic, 6% Black, 6% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 78% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, The school lists 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.1:1. The state averages around 13.9:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 12% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against McLean County (around 40%), the school's rate is south of typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Northpoint Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 64.7%, the actual is 55.3%, a residual of -9.4 points.

In the area at large, McLean County reports that median household earnings sit near $79,905, roughly 47% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, McLean County runs 60 public schools (combined enrollment of about 23,759 students), of which Northpoint Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Grove Elementary School, around 1.1 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Northpoint Elementary School ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 46.2%.

The school occupies a city-core site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 11%: 530 students in 2018 compared to 472 in 2025. The Asian share of enrollment declined from 22% to 18% over that span. Class-load math has pulled in: from 18.1:1 in 2018 to 15.1:1 in 2025.

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