Sangamon Valley Intermediate Sch
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Test scores
IAR + ISA 2024-25 . % Proficient (Levels 4-5)What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 65 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 53 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Illinois schools, those numbers are about 51 and 38. Reading and writing scores are up about 27 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 26 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 54% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 33% typical for Illinois schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 21 points, placing it in Illinois's top 10%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Sangamon Valley Intermediate Sch
Located at 341 Matilda St, in Illiopolis, Illinois, Sangamon Valley Intermediate Sch is a very small elementary campus that educates 115 students (grades 3 through 5), one of the schools within Sangamon Valley CUSD 9. Enrollment runs roughly 70% below the state mean of about 381.
Across the 4 schools in Sangamon Valley CUSD 9 (634 students total), Sangamon Valley Intermediate Sch accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
For racial and ethnic makeup, Sangamon Valley Intermediate Sch records that 91% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest looks like 4% Hispanic. By comparison, Sangamon County as a whole is about 78% White, so the school skews noticeably more White than its surroundings.
Looking at the economic backdrop, Sangamon Valley Intermediate Sch lists 7 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.4:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.9:1 average. An estimated 67% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is higher than Sangamon County's rate of about 48%.
With demographic context factored in, Sangamon Valley Intermediate Sch is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 32.9%; this one delivers 54.2%, a residual of +21.3 points.
Around the school, community-level numbers for Sangamon County indicate median household earnings sit near $75,357, about 37% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Sangamon Valley Intermediate Sch is one of 77 public schools in Sangamon County (combined enrollment of about 27,345 students).
The closest other public school is Sangamon Valley Middle School, roughly 0.0 miles away. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Sangamon Valley Intermediate Sch ranks 4th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 46.8%.
Sangamon Valley Intermediate Sch operates from an outlying location.
Looking at the recent track record. Sangamon Valley Intermediate Sch's enrollment has contracted 27% since 2018, when it stood at 158 (now 115). White enrollment moved from 97% to 91% across the same window.
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