Ridgeview Elementary School

Ridgeview Elementary School is a medium-sized primary school in Peoria, Illinois, overseen by Dunlap CUSD 323. The school serves 433 students in grades K through 5.

Ridgeview Elementary School is one of 8 schools operated by Dunlap CUSD 323, a district that enrolls 4,837 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Ridgeview Elementary School logs that the largest single group is White at 53%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest looks like 18% Asian, 15% Black, 8% Hispanic, 6% multiracial. By comparison, Peoria County as a whole is about 67% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.9:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.9:1 average. Around 31% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Peoria County runs at roughly 57%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Ridgeview Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 53.6%, the actual is 56.1%, a residual of +2.5 points.

In the area at large, census data for Peoria County shows the typical household earns roughly $65,108 per year, 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Peoria County's 81 public schools (combined enrollment of about 27,827 students), Ridgeview Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Mark W Bills Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.7 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Ridgeview Elementary School. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Ridgeview Elementary School ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 43.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Ridgeview Elementary School has climbed 3%, going from 421 students in 2018 to 433 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment ticked up from 4% to 8% over that span.

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