St Libory Elem School

St Libory Elem School operates as a very small primary school in St Libory, Illinois, overseen by St Libory Cons SD 30. Current enrollment sits at 65 students spanning grades K through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 83% below the state mean of about 381.

St Libory Cons SD 30 is the operating authority for St Libory Elem School, handling staffing, calendars, and reporting to the state department of education.

For racial and ethnic makeup, St Libory Elem School records that 98% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. By comparison, St. Clair County as a whole is about 60% White, so the school skews considerably more White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, St Libory Elem School reports 7 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 9.3:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.9:1 average. Roughly 15% of students at St Libory Elem School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is lower than St. Clair County's rate of about 54%.

With demographic context factored in, St Libory Elem School is in the bottom 10% of Illinois public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 62.6%; St Libory Elem School posts 47.9%, -14.7 points below that line.

In the surrounding community, St. Clair County reports that the typical household earns roughly $73,854 per year, about 32% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. In all, St. Clair County runs 96 public schools (combined enrollment of about 40,879 students), of which St Libory Elem School is one.

The closest other public school is Marissa Jr & Sr High School, roughly 7.3 miles away. Within ten miles, there are 5 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. On composite proficiency, St Libory Elem School comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 53.2%.

St Libory Elem School operates from a countryside location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 11%: 73 students in 2018 compared to 65 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share rose from 92% to 98%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 10.4:1 in 2018 to 9.3:1 today.

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