Norwood Elem School

Set in Peoria, Illinois, Norwood Elem School is a micro-enrollment intermediate school, run under Norwood ESD 63. It instructs 150 students across grades 5 through 8. By comparison, Illinois's public schools average about 462 students each, so Norwood Elem School sits 68% smaller than that benchmark.

Norwood Elem School is one of 2 schools operated by Norwood ESD 63, a district that teaches 374 students overall.

In terms of who attends, Norwood Elem School records that the largest single group is White, at 76% of enrollment. The remainder looks like 10% multiracial, 8% Hispanic, 6% Black. That is meaningfully more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 67%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 12 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.5:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 13.0:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 57% of students at Norwood Elem School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

After controlling for student poverty, Norwood Elem School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 38.8%, the actual is 38.0%, a residual of -0.8 points.

In the area at large, Peoria County reports that the typical household earns roughly $65,108 per year, about 35% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Peoria County's 81 public schools (combined enrollment of about 27,827 students), Norwood Elem School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Norwood Primary School, around 1.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Norwood Elem School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Norwood Elem School at 3rd of 9; the average score across the group is 30.8%.

The campus sits in a residential setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Norwood Elem School's enrollment has shrank 13% since 2018, when it stood at 173 (now 150). The White share of enrollment declined from 90% to 76% over that span.

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