Pearl City Elementary School

As an intimate K-5 school in Pearl City, Illinois, Pearl City Elementary School enrolls 213 students from grades pre-K through 6, one of the schools within Pearl City CUSD 200. By comparison, Illinois's public schools average about 381 students each, so Pearl City Elementary School sits 44% leaner than that benchmark.

Pearl City Elementary School is one of 3 schools operated by Pearl City CUSD 200, a district that teaches 418 students overall.

Looking at the student body, Pearl City Elementary School logs that the largest single group is White, at 80% of enrollment. The remainder consists of 14% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 2% Black. Compared to Stephenson County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the resource side, Pearl City Elementary School reports 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.8:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.9:1 average. About 40% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is lower than Stephenson County's rate of about 50%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Pearl City Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 48.5%; this one delivers 40.3%.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Stephenson County put the typical household earns roughly $64,043 per year, about 21% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Across Stephenson County's 23 public schools (combined enrollment of about 6,092 students), Pearl City Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Pearl City High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Pearl City Elementary School comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 41.8%.

The school occupies a low-density site.

Five-year trend. Pearl City Elementary School's enrollment has shrank 12% since 2018, when it stood at 243 (now 213). White enrollment moved from 91% to 80% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 13.7:1 in 2018 to 10.8:1 today.

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