Thomasboro Grade School

Thomasboro Grade School is a primary school of very small scale in Thomasboro, Illinois, part of Thomasboro CCSD 130, serveing 148 students in grades pre-K through 8. Compared to the state average of about 381 students per school, that is 61% below typical.

Thomasboro CCSD 130 is the operating authority for Thomasboro Grade School, handling staffing, calendars, and reporting to the state department of education.

On the student-mix side, Thomasboro Grade School logs that 68% of the student body identifies as White; the rest comes out to 12% Hispanic, 12% multiracial, 7% Black.

On the income-and-resources front, Thomasboro Grade School logs 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.9:1, putting Thomasboro Grade School tighter than the state norm the norm. About 68% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably above Champaign County's rate of about 53%.

With demographic context factored in, Thomasboro Grade School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 32.5%, the actual is 29.9%, a residual of -2.6 points.

In the area at large, Champaign County reports that median household earnings sit near $63,683, roughly 46% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Champaign County's 66 public schools (combined enrollment of about 25,919 students), Thomasboro Grade School is one campus in the mix.

Broadmeadow Elem School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 4.6 miles from this campus. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Thomasboro Grade School comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 23.2%.

The school occupies a town-center site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 4%: 154 students in 2018 compared to 148 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 77% to 68% across the same window.

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