Vandalia Elementary School

Set in Vandalia, Illinois, Vandalia Elementary School is a mid-tier elementary school, operated by Vandalia CUSD 203. It teaches 552 students across grades pre-K through 3. By comparison, Illinois's public schools average about 381 students each, so Vandalia Elementary School sits 45% bigger than that benchmark.

Within Vandalia CUSD 203, which oversees 3 schools and 1,465 students, Vandalia Elementary School is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Vandalia Elementary School records that nearly all students (91%) are White. The remainder is composed of 6% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, On paper, Vandalia Elementary School has 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.6:1. The state averages about 13.9:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 59% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Vandalia Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 37.3%; this one delivers 44.8%.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Fayette County indicate median household earnings sit near $60,944, roughly 17% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Across Fayette County's 15 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,858 students), Vandalia Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Vandalia Junior High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Vandalia Elementary School at 1st of 9; the average score across the group is 32.8%.

The campus sits in a town-center setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Vandalia Elementary School has climbed 12%, going from 493 students in 2018 to 552 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 15.8:1 in 2018 to 14.6:1 today.

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