Trenton Elem School

Trenton Elem School is a cozy elementary-level community in Trenton, Illinois, run under Wesclin CUSD 3. The school instructs 207 students in grades pre-K through 3. That puts it 46% smaller than the typical public school in Illinois, which averages around 381 students.

Within Wesclin CUSD 3, which oversees 4 schools and 1,288 students, Trenton Elem School is one campus in the system.

Demographically, Trenton Elem School logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (87%); the rest comes out to 5% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.8:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.9:1 average. Roughly 37% of students at Trenton Elem School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

After controlling for student poverty, Trenton Elem School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 50.3% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 62.2%.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Clinton County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $86,588 per year, roughly 26% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Trenton Elem School is one of 19 public schools in Clinton County (combined enrollment of about 5,278 students).

Nearest neighbor: Wesclin Middle School, around 2.7 miles off. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Trenton Elem School at 3rd of 9; the average score across the group is 58.2%.

The school occupies a countryside site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 19%: 257 students in 2018 compared to 207 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 20.8:1 in 2018 to 14.8:1 in 2025.

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