Pocahontas Center

Pocahontas Center is an elementary campus of cozy scale in Pocahontas, Illinois, operated by Bond County CUSD 2, hosting 193 students in grades pre-K through 8. By comparison, Illinois's public schools average about 381 students each, so Pocahontas Center sits 49% leaner than that benchmark.

Bond County CUSD 2 runs 5 schools in total, collectively educating 1,550 students. Pocahontas Center is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Pocahontas Center logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (93%). Other groups include 5% multiracial.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Pocahontas Center has 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 10.7:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.9:1 average. Around 54% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Pocahontas Center ranks in the top 10% of Illinois public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 40.4%; Pocahontas Center posts 57.8%, +17.4 points above that line.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Bond County put median household income runs about $65,959, about 22% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Bond County's 8 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,852 students), Pocahontas Center is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Grantfork Upper Elementary Sch, around 6.7 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Pocahontas Center ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 54.7%.

Geographically, the school is in an outlying area.

Five-year trend. Pocahontas Center's enrollment has ticked down 3% since 2018, when it stood at 198 (now 193). The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 13.8:1 in 2018 to 10.7:1 today.

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