Pikeland Community School

Pikeland Community School is a middle school of medium-sized scale in Pittsfield, Illinois, one of the schools within Pikeland CUSD 10, instructing 491 students in grades 3 through 8.

Pikeland CUSD 10 comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 1,200 students; Pikeland Community School is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Pikeland Community School logs that 93% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder looks like 3% Hispanic. That composition is broadly in line with Pike County as a whole.

On the resource side, On paper, Pikeland Community School has 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.5:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.0:1, putting Pikeland Community School higher than the state norm the norm. About 56% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Pikeland Community School sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 39.1%; actual is 20.3%, a gap of -18.7 points.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Pike County put the typical household earns roughly $59,777 per year, roughly 19% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. Pikeland Community School is one of 12 public schools in Pike County (combined enrollment of about 2,394 students).

Nearest neighbor: Pittsfield High School, around 0.3 miles off. Within five miles, there are 2 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Pikeland Community School at 7th of 8; the average score across the group is 33.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 16%: 584 students in 2018 compared to 491 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 98% to 93% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 14.1:1 in 2018 to 16.5:1 today.

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