Enrollment
324
Elementary
DISTRICT 372 · STATE 381
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·URBANA SD 116·NCES 173996004014
Thomas Paine Elementary School
1801 James Cherry Dr, Urbana, IL 61802 · (217) 384-3602 · Champaign County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL324 STUDENTS
F
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Scored higher than 3% of Illinois public elementary schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- FBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Illinois public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
9.3:1
35 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.1:1 · STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
72%
233 students
DISTRICT 74% · STATE 56%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 40 | 12% |
| Grade 1 | 60 | 19% |
| Grade 2 | 55 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 67 | 21% |
| Grade 4 | 46 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 56 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (40) is 29% smaller than its 5th grade class (56).
Student demographics
69%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 72% · STATE 69% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
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IAR + ISA 2024-25 . % Proficient (Levels 4-5)English Language Arts
16.3%
IL avg 51.0% . +7.3pp since 2023
Math
10.6%
IL avg 37.9% . +5.1pp since 2023
What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 16 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 11 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Illinois schools, those numbers are about 51 and 38. Reading and writing scores are up about 7 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 5 points.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 16.3% | 10.6% |
| 2023-24 | 9.0% | 5.5% |
% Proficient (Levels 4-5), all students and all tested grades.
Source: IAR + ISA. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of IL schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
14.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
30.0%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-15.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 15% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 30% typical for Illinois schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Thomas Paine Elementary School
Thomas Paine Elementary School's state test result (14.5% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thomas Paine Elementary School this school | 324 | 71.9% | 14.5% |
| Lewis School Carbondale | 325 | 72.3% | 23.9% |
| Jefferson Elementary School Belleville | 293 | 70.0% | 32.3% |
| Charter Oak Primary School Peoria | 337 | 66.8% | 44.1% |
| High Mount Elementary School Swansea | 325 | 68.3% | 29.2% |
| Thomas Elementary School Carbondale | 400 | 75.0% | 18.6% |
Matched among Illinois elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Thomas Paine Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Illinois | In Champaign County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 14.5% | #1,769 of 1,925 | #22 of 29 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 10.6% | #1,881 of 2,077 ▼ 35 | #22 of 30 ▲ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 16.3% | #1,993 of 2,077 ▼ 33 | #24 of 30 ▲ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 324 | #1,403 of 2,419 | #20 of 37 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 9.3:1 | #63 of 2,035 | #1 of 31 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 69.1% | #189 of 2,042 | #12 of 31 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 71.9% | #697 of 2,132 | #11 of 32 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -1.2% | #1,412 of 1,461 | #17 of 19 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
324
+67 (+26%) vs 2020
-42% since 1990-91, when it was 554
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 324 | 35 | 9.3:1 | 72% (233) |
| 2023-24 | 362 | 27.4 | 13.2:1 | 70% (253) |
| 2022-23 | 251 | 20.2 | 12.4:1 | 71% (177) |
| 2020-21 | 257 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 328 | 25 | 13.1:1 | 68% (222) |
| 2015-16 | 319 | 24 | 13.3:1 | 61% (195) |
| 2010-11 | 291 | 22 | 13.2:1 | 66% (192) |
| 2000-01 | 340 | 25 | 13.6:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 554 | 33 | 16.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Thomas Paine Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 1% (328 to 324); teachers up 40% (25 to 35).
About Thomas Paine Elementary School
Located in Urbana, Illinois, Thomas Paine Elementary School is a medium-sized elementary school. A federal count lists 324 students at the school, in kindergarten through 5.
Urbana SD 116 includes 9 schools. Together they enroll 4,658 students.
Black students form the largest group at Thomas Paine Elementary School, 45% of enrollment. Other groups include 27% White, 15% multiracial, 8% Hispanic, and 4% Asian. By comparison, Champaign County residents are about 14% Black. By the diversity index, Thomas Paine Elementary School comes in at 69%.
Thomas Paine Elementary School's 35 full-time-equivalent teachers put its ratio at 9.3:1. That ratio is under the 13.9:1 average for elementary schools in Illinois. The school's rate of free or reduced-price lunch eligibility is 72%. Compared with the 53% average for public schools in Champaign County, the school's rate is higher.
Thomas Paine Elementary School is graded F by allk12, scoring above 3% of Illinois public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
In Illinois, Thomas Paine Elementary School is one of the bottom 10% of schools on BeatsExpectations, with an average proficiency rate on state tests of 14.5% compared with a predicted 30.0%.
County data help place the school in context: in Champaign County, median household income is about $63,683, roughly 46% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 7%. The public schools of Champaign County number 66 and enroll about 25,919.
Of nearby public schools, Dr Preston L Williams Jr Elementary School is the closest, at about 0.7 miles. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. Thomas Paine Elementary School comes in 4th of 5 nearby schools on average proficiency.
Thomas Paine Elementary School is coded as City: Small in federal locale data.
A comparison of 2020-21 and 2024-25 shows enrollment up 26%, from 257 to 324.
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Champaign County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
208,741
Census ACS
Median income
$63,683
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
46%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
66
25,919 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Urbana SD 116
- Urbana High SchoolHigh · 1,176 students
- Urbana Middle SchoolMiddle · 877 students
- Yankee Ridge Multilingual SchoolElementary · 482 students
- Yankee Ridge Elementary SchoolElementary · 461 students
- Dr Preston L Williams Jr Elementary SchoolElementary · 399 students
- Leal Elementary SchoolElementary · 373 students
Other schools in Urbana
- Urbana High SchoolHigh · 1,176 students
- Urbana Middle SchoolMiddle · 877 students
- Yankee Ridge Multilingual SchoolElementary · 482 students
- Yankee Ridge Elementary SchoolElementary · 461 students
- Dr Preston L Williams Jr Elementary SchoolElementary · 399 students
- Leal Elementary SchoolElementary · 373 students
Other Thomas Paine Elementary schools
2 other US public schools in 3 states are named Thomas Paine Elementary. Thomas Paine Elementary School is the 3rd largest of the 3.
- Thomas Paine ElementaryGarden Grove, CA · 428 students
- Thomas Paine Elementary SchoolCHERRY HILL, NJ · 342 students
Nearby schools
- Dr Preston L Williams Jr Elementary School0.7 mi · 399
- Urbana Early Childhood Center0.7 mi · 244
- Yankee Ridge Multilingual School0.9 mi · 482
- Yankee Ridge Elementary School0.9 mi · 461
- Urbana Middle School1.2 mi · 877
- Urbana High School1.3 mi · 1,176
Frequently asked questions
About Thomas Paine Elementary SchoolHow large is Thomas Paine Elementary School?
Thomas Paine Elementary School enrolls approximately 324 students in grades KG-05.
Is Thomas Paine Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Thomas Paine Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades KG-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Thomas Paine Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Thomas Paine Elementary School is approximately 9.3:1 (35 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Thomas Paine Elementary School?
At Thomas Paine Elementary School, the student body is approximately 27% White, 8% Hispanic, 45% Black, 4% Asian, 15% Two or more.
Who oversees Thomas Paine Elementary School?
Thomas Paine Elementary School is overseen by Urbana SD 116 in Champaign County.
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