Tri-C Elementary School

Located at 1405 W Grand Ave, in Carterville, Illinois, Tri-C Elementary School is a heavily attended elementary-level community that enrolls 650 students (grades K through 3), overseen by Carterville CUSD 5. That puts it 71% larger than the typical public school in Illinois, which averages around 381 students.

Within Carterville CUSD 5, which oversees 4 schools and 2,162 students, Tri-C Elementary School is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Tri-C Elementary School shows that 82% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school logs 6% multiracial, 5% Hispanic, 4% Black, 3% Asian.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 46 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.1:1. The state averages about 13.9:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 44% of students at Tri-C Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably below Williamson County's rate of about 54%.

After controlling for student poverty, Tri-C Elementary School ranks in the top 10% of Illinois public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 46.1%; Tri-C Elementary School posts 64.6%, +18.5 points above that line.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Williamson County) records that the typical household earns roughly $65,604 per year, about 26% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. In all, Williamson County runs 26 public schools (combined enrollment of about 9,700 students), of which Tri-C Elementary School is one.

The closest other public school is Carterville High School, roughly 0.2 miles away. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Tri-C Elementary School ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 49.0%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Five-year trend. Tri-C Elementary School's enrollment has decreased 6% since 2018, when it stood at 695 (now 650). The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 15.5:1 in 2018 to 14.1:1 today.

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