Rome Comm Cons Elem School

Located at 233 W South St, in Dix, Illinois, Rome Comm Cons Elem School is a cozy elementary campus that hosts 286 students (grades pre-K through 8), one of the schools within Rome CCSD 2. By comparison, Illinois's public schools average about 381 students each, so Rome Comm Cons Elem School sits 25% smaller than that benchmark.

Rome Comm Cons Elem School is a school of Rome CCSD 2, the district that handles curriculum, staffing, and budget for the campus.

Demographically, Rome Comm Cons Elem School reports that 92% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 6% multiracial.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.4:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 13.9:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 47% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Jefferson County (around 60%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Rome Comm Cons Elem School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 44.3% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 47.3%.

Zooming out to the county, Jefferson County reports that the typical household earns roughly $63,118 per year, roughly 18% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Jefferson County's 31 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,314 students), Rome Comm Cons Elem School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Field Elementary School, roughly 4.0 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Rome Comm Cons Elem School. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Rome Comm Cons Elem School ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 36.4%.

The campus sits in an outlying setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 24%: 378 students in 2018 compared to 286 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 15.8:1 in 2018 to 12.4:1 in 2025.

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