Summersville Grade School

Summersville Grade School is one of the modestly sized K-5 schools in Mount Vernon, Illinois, part of Summersville SD 79, with 283 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 8. By comparison, Illinois's public schools average about 381 students each, so Summersville Grade School sits 26% leaner than that benchmark.

Summersville Grade School is a school of Summersville SD 79, the district that handles curriculum, staffing, and budget for the campus.

Looking at the student body, Summersville Grade School reports that 87% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder consists of 7% multiracial, 4% Hispanic. Compared to Jefferson County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.3:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.9:1 average. About 38% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is south of Jefferson County's rate of about 60%.

With demographic context factored in, Summersville Grade School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 49.5%, the actual is 61.1%, a residual of +11.6 points.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Jefferson County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $63,118 per year, about 18% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Summersville Grade School is one of 31 public schools in Jefferson County (combined enrollment of about 5,314 students).

Dr Andy Hall Early Educ Ctr is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.8 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 6 other public schools cluster around Summersville Grade School. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Summersville Grade School ranks 1st on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 28.4%.

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

Over the past 7-year window. Summersville Grade School's enrollment has changed only slightly since 2018, when it stood at 282 (now 283). The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 13.7:1 in 2018 to 12.3:1 today.

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