Villa Grove Elem School

Located at 400 N Sycamore St, in Villa Grove, Illinois, Villa Grove Elem School is a low-enrollment K-5 school that instructs 310 students (grades pre-K through 6), one of the schools within Villa Grove CUSD 302.

Villa Grove Elem School is one of 3 schools operated by Villa Grove CUSD 302, a district that educates 599 students overall.

On demographics, Villa Grove Elem School reports that nearly all students (89%) are White. The remainder consists of 5% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. Compared to Douglas County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the resource side, The school reports having 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.9:1, putting Villa Grove Elem School tighter than the state norm the norm. About 56% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Villa Grove Elem School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 38.9%, the actual is 49.2%, a residual of +10.3 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Douglas County) records that the typical household earns roughly $77,320 per year, 21% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Villa Grove Elem School is one of 10 public schools in Douglas County (combined enrollment of about 2,780 students).

Nearest neighbor: Villa Grove Jr High School, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Villa Grove Elem School. On composite proficiency, Villa Grove Elem School comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 45.3%.

Villa Grove Elem School operates from an outlying location.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Villa Grove Elem School has fell 13%, going from 358 students in 2018 to 310 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share shrank from 94% to 89%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 16.9:1 in 2018 to 13.1:1 in 2025.

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