Steeleville Elem School

Steeleville Elem School is one of the compact K-5 schools in Steeleville, Illinois, operated by Steeleville CUSD 138, with 323 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 8.

Steeleville CUSD 138 runs 2 schools in total, collectively educating 471 students. Steeleville Elem School is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Steeleville Elem School shows that 88% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest looks like 7% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Randolph County as a whole.

In terms of school funding signals, The school employs 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.3:1. The state averages around 13.9:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 43% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Randolph County (around 51%), the school's rate is south of typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Steeleville Elem School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 46.7%, the actual is 34.1%, a residual of -12.6 points.

In the area at large, census data for Randolph County shows the typical household earns roughly $68,131 per year, roughly 15% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Steeleville Elem School is one of 16 public schools in Randolph County (combined enrollment of about 3,876 students).

Steeleville High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Within ten miles, there are 6 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Steeleville Elem School ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 34.9%.

Steeleville Elem School operates from a low-density location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count expanded 7%: 302 students in 2018 compared to 323 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 97% to 88% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 16.9:1 in 2018 to 15.3:1 in 2025.

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