St Joseph Elem School

St Joseph Elem School is a K-5 school of mid-tier scale in Saint Joseph, Illinois, part of St Joseph CCSD 169, educateing 423 students in grades pre-K through 4.

St Joseph Elem School is one of 2 schools operated by St Joseph CCSD 169, a district that educates 748 students overall.

In terms of who attends, St Joseph Elem School logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (94%); the rest looks like 3% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 64% White, putting the school's mix visibly more White than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.0:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 13.9:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 20% of students at St Joseph Elem School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Champaign County runs at roughly 53%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, St Joseph Elem School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 60.2%, the actual is 67.6%, a residual of +7.4 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Champaign County indicate median household income runs about $63,683, 46% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. St Joseph Elem School is one of 66 public schools in Champaign County (combined enrollment of about 25,919 students).

St Joseph Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around St Joseph Elem School. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), St Joseph Elem School ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 42.3%.

St Joseph Elem School operates from an outlying location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at St Joseph Elem School has declined 11%, going from 476 students in 2018 to 423 in 2025.

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