Oakland Elementary School

As a middle-of-the-pack elementary campus in Bloomington, Illinois, Oakland Elementary School teaches 446 students from grades K through 5, overseen by Bloomington SD 87.

Across the 9 schools in Bloomington SD 87 (4,809 students total), Oakland Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Oakland Elementary School logs that 43% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school shows 22% Black, 13% multiracial, 11% Asian, 11% Hispanic. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 78%.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.1:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 53% of students at Oakland Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, McLean County runs at roughly 40%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Oakland Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 40.8%, the actual is 43.4%, a residual of +2.6 points.

Around the school, McLean County reports that median household earnings sit near $79,905, 47% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across McLean County's 60 public schools (combined enrollment of about 23,759 students), Oakland Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Washington Elem School, around 0.5 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), Oakland Elementary School ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 35.1%.

The campus sits in an urban setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Oakland Elementary School has declined 8%, going from 486 students in 2018 to 446 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share fell from 58% to 43%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 16.8:1 in 2018 to 14.1:1 in 2025.

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