Parkside Primary School

Parkside Primary School, a cozy elementary campus in Bethalto, Illinois, overseen by Bethalto CUSD 8, hosts 321 students, covering grades 2 through 3.

Bethalto CUSD 8 runs 5 schools in total, collectively educating 2,368 students. Parkside Primary School is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Parkside Primary School logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (87%). Other groups include 5% multiracial, 4% Hispanic, 4% Black. That composition is broadly in line with Madison County as a whole.

On the resource side, Parkside Primary School shows 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.4:1. The state averages about 13.9:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 55% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Madison County runs at roughly 46%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Parkside Primary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 39.7%; this one delivers 34.7%.

In the surrounding community, census data for Madison County shows median household income runs about $75,793, about 31% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Across Madison County's 84 public schools (combined enrollment of about 35,253 students), Parkside Primary School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Bethalto East Primary School, roughly 1.0 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Parkside Primary School. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Parkside Primary School ranks 4th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 35.1%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Five-year trend. Parkside Primary School's enrollment has shrank 9% since 2018, when it stood at 352 (now 321). White enrollment moved from 91% to 87% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 18.5:1 in 2018 to 14.4:1 today.

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