Silver Creek Elementary

Silver Creek Elementary is a public elementary school in Troy, Illinois. Students in pre-K through 5 make up the school's enrollment of 757 students. By comparison, elementary schools in Illinois enroll about 381 students on average.

Triad CUSD 2 enrolls 4,009 students, and its 6 schools include Silver Creek Elementary.

By race and ethnicity, Silver Creek Elementary is 89% White. Next come 4% Hispanic and 4% multiracial. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 20, compared with 70 nationally.

For every teacher at Silver Creek Elementary, there are about 16.3 students; the school has 46.5 full-time-equivalent teachers. The average for elementary schools in Illinois is 13.9:1, so this school has more students per teacher. There are 134 students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, 18% of enrollment. Public schools in Madison County average 46%.

BeatsExpectations compares each school's average proficiency rate across its state test results with a prediction based on free or reduced-price lunch eligibility. For Silver Creek Elementary, the prediction is 61.3% and the result is 57.2%.

For the population of Madison County, median household income comes to about $75,793, roughly 31% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Madison County's 84 public schools enroll about 35,253 students and include Silver Creek Elementary.

Silver Creek Elementary is about 0.8 miles from C A Henning School, its nearest public school. There are 6 other public schools within five miles. Silver Creek Elementary ranks 6th of 8 among nearby schools on average proficiency, with 57.2% against a local average of 59.8%.

The NCES locale for Silver Creek Elementary is Suburb: Large, which covers schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.

Enrollment went from 769 in 2020-21 to 757 in 2024-25, a change of 12 students.

The discussion board for Silver Creek Elementary is open to topics like pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to post.