Shiloh Elementary School

Shiloh Elementary School is a close-knit primary school in Hume, Illinois, one of the schools within Shiloh CUSD 1. The school educates 247 students in grades pre-K through 8. By comparison, Illinois's public schools average about 381 students each, so Shiloh Elementary School sits 35% smaller than that benchmark.

Across the 2 schools in Shiloh CUSD 1 (362 students total), Shiloh Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, Shiloh Elementary School reports that the student body is overwhelmingly White (95%); the rest looks like 3% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. Compared to Edgar County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.7:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.9:1 average. About 52% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Shiloh Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 41.4%, the actual is 30.6%, a residual of -10.7 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Edgar County indicate median household income runs about $59,941, 20% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Across Edgar County's 19 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,650 students), Shiloh Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Shiloh High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Shiloh Elementary School ranks 6th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 36.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Shiloh Elementary School has grew 27%, going from 195 students in 2018 to 247 in 2025. Class-load math has narrowed: from 13.9:1 in 2018 to 10.7:1 in 2025.

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