Steele School

Set in Galesburg, Illinois, Steele School is a medium-sized elementary school, operated by Galesburg CUSD 205. It enrolls 542 students across grades K through 4. By comparison, Illinois's public schools average about 381 students each, so Steele School sits 42% bigger than that benchmark.

Within Galesburg CUSD 205, which oversees 7 schools and 3,863 students, Steele School is one campus in the system.

Demographically, Steele School lists that the largest single group is White at 49%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest looks like 27% Black, 13% multiracial, 11% Hispanic. By comparison, Knox County as a whole is about 82% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Steele School reports 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.3:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 77% of students at Steele School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is north of Knox County's rate of about 64%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Steele School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 27.3%, the actual is 31.5%, a residual of +4.2 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Knox County indicate median household earnings sit near $57,030, about 21% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Across Knox County's 26 public schools (combined enrollment of about 6,359 students), Steele School is one campus in the mix.

Bright Futures Pre-K Prog is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 6 other public schools cluster around Steele School. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Steele School ranks 4th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 32.8%.

The school occupies a town-center site.

Looking at the recent track record. Steele School's enrollment has edged up 59% since 2018, when it stood at 341 (now 542). The White share of enrollment ticked up from 44% to 49% over that span.

Within the allk12 community for this school, posts here usually surface around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.