Robeson Elem School

Robeson Elem School, a moderately sized elementary school in Champaign, Illinois, part of Champaign CUSD 4, serves 439 students, covering grades K through 5.

Within Champaign CUSD 4, which oversees 18 schools and 10,598 students, Robeson Elem School is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Robeson Elem School shows that 34% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school reports 31% White, 14% multiracial, 13% Hispanic, 8% Asian. That is considerably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 14%.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.8:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.9:1 average. Roughly 51% of students at Robeson Elem School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, Robeson Elem School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 42.0%; this one delivers 40.7%.

In the broader community, Champaign County reports that the typical household earns roughly $63,683 per year, about 46% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. In all, Champaign County runs 66 public schools (combined enrollment of about 25,919 students), of which Robeson Elem School is one.

Nearest neighbor: International Prep Academy, around 0.9 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Robeson Elem School comes 3rd of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 39.2%.

The campus sits in a high-density setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Robeson Elem School has rose 4%, going from 422 students in 2018 to 439 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 45% to 31% across the same window. Class-load math has loosened: from 15.2:1 in 2018 to 16.8:1 in 2025.

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