South View Upper Elem School

South View Upper Elem School, a mid-tier intermediate school in Danville, Illinois, part of Danville CCSD 118, hosts 664 students, covering grades 5 through 6. Compared to the state average of about 462 students per school, that is 44% bigger than typical.

Danville CCSD 118 runs 9 schools in total, collectively educating 4,940 students. South View Upper Elem School is one of those campuses.

Demographically, South View Upper Elem School records that the largest single group is Black at 54%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder looks like 23% White, 11% multiracial, 10% Hispanic. By comparison, Vermilion County as a whole is about 15% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, South View Upper Elem School logs 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 18.7:1. The state averages around 13.0:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 93% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Vermilion County (around 71%), the school's rate is north of typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, South View Upper Elem School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 17.8%, the actual is 12.2%, a residual of -5.6 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Vermilion County indicate median household earnings sit near $56,877, about 19% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. In all, Vermilion County runs 41 public schools (combined enrollment of about 11,267 students), of which South View Upper Elem School is one.

Southwest Elem School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.9 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around South View Upper Elem School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts South View Upper Elem School at 9th of 9; the average score across the group is 21.7%.

The school occupies a town-center site.

Looking at the recent track record. South View Upper Elem School's enrollment has shrank 12% since 2018, when it stood at 755 (now 664). Over the same period, the White share contracted from 34% to 23%. Class-load math has widened: from 16.0:1 in 2018 to 18.7:1 in 2025.

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