West Lincoln-Broadwell Elem Sch

Set in Lincoln, Illinois, West Lincoln-Broadwell Elem Sch is an intimate elementary-level community, one of the schools within West Lincoln-Broadwell ESD 92. It caters to 217 students across grades pre-K through 8. By comparison, Illinois's public schools average about 381 students each, so West Lincoln-Broadwell Elem Sch sits 43% below that benchmark.

West Lincoln-Broadwell Elem Sch sits inside West Lincoln-Broadwell ESD 92, the local public-school operator responsible for the campus.

On the student-mix side, West Lincoln-Broadwell Elem Sch lists that 99% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. That is meaningfully more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 87%.

In terms of school funding signals, The school lists 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.5:1. The state averages around 13.9:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 23% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Logan County (around 51%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), West Lincoln-Broadwell Elem Sch performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 58.5%, the actual is 55.7%, a residual of -2.8 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Logan County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $66,358 per year, about 21% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. West Lincoln-Broadwell Elem Sch is one of 15 public schools in Logan County (combined enrollment of about 3,448 students).

Nearest neighbor: Northwest Elem School, around 1.5 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 7 other public schools cluster around West Lincoln-Broadwell Elem Sch. On composite proficiency, West Lincoln-Broadwell Elem Sch comes 3rd of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 45.1%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 7%: 234 students in 2018 compared to 217 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 90% to 99% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 14.1:1 in 2018 to 10.5:1 today.

In the discussion threads here, posts here usually surface around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.