Stockton Elem School

Stockton Elem School is a primary school of small scale in Stockton, Illinois, overseen by Stockton CUSD 206, serveing 220 students in grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 42% below the typical public school in Illinois, which averages around 381 students.

Stockton CUSD 206 comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 490 students; Stockton Elem School is among them.

On demographics, Stockton Elem School records that 88% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 6% Hispanic, 5% multiracial.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.9:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.9:1, putting Stockton Elem School tighter than the state norm the norm. About 47% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Stockton Elem School sits in the top 10% of Illinois schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 44.2%; actual is 63.3%, +19.1 points clear of the demographic baseline.

In the surrounding community, census data for Jo Daviess County shows median household earnings sit near $73,993, about 29% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. In all, Jo Daviess County runs 21 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,012 students), of which Stockton Elem School is one.

Stockton Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Stockton Elem School. On composite proficiency, Stockton Elem School comes 2nd of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 56.3%.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Stockton Elem School's enrollment has decreased 17% since 2018, when it stood at 265 (now 220). Over the same period, the White share shrank from 93% to 88%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 15.0:1 in 2018 to 11.9:1 today.

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