Whiteside Elem School

Located at 2028 Lebanon Ave, in Belleville, Illinois, Whiteside Elem School is a big elementary campus that instructs 680 students (grades pre-K through 4), operated by Whiteside SD 115. Enrollment runs roughly 78% bigger than the state mean of about 381.

Whiteside SD 115 runs 2 schools in total, collectively educating 1,155 students. Whiteside Elem School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Whiteside Elem School lists that the largest single group is Black at 55%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school shows 29% White, 10% multiracial, 5% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 28% Black, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Black than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Whiteside Elem School has 48 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.2:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 63% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, St. Clair County runs at roughly 54%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Whiteside Elem School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 35.3%, the actual is 35.0%, a residual of -0.2 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for St. Clair County indicate median household income runs about $73,854, 32% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Whiteside Elem School is one of 96 public schools in St. Clair County (combined enrollment of about 40,879 students).

Whiteside Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Whiteside Elem School comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 41.6%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Whiteside Elem School has decreased 5%, going from 717 students in 2018 to 680 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 50% to 55% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 16.1:1 in 2018 to 14.2:1 today.

On this page, members of the Whiteside Elem School community share and discuss school events, parent volunteer needs, and clubs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.