William Holliday Elem School

William Holliday Elem School is a mid-sized elementary-level community in Fairview Heights, Illinois, run under Pontiac-W Holliday SD 105. The school serves 418 students in grades pre-K through 5.

Within Pontiac-W Holliday SD 105, which oversees 2 schools and 630 students, William Holliday Elem School is one campus in the system.

Demographically, William Holliday Elem School lists that the largest single group is Black at 44%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 26% White, 14% Hispanic, 12% multiracial, 4% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 28% Black, putting the school's mix visibly more Black than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, William Holliday Elem School has 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.9:1, putting William Holliday Elem School tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 65% of students at William Holliday Elem School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is above St. Clair County's rate of about 54%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, William Holliday Elem School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 33.8%, the actual is 30.5%, a residual of -3.3 points.

Around the school, the surrounding county (St. Clair County) shows that 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%. Across St. Clair County's 96 public schools (combined enrollment of about 40,879 students), William Holliday Elem School is one campus in the mix.

Pontiac Jr High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, William Holliday Elem School comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 48.5%.

The school occupies a residential site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at William Holliday Elem School has contracted 13%, going from 478 students in 2018 to 418 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 35% to 26% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 16.5:1 in 2018 to 12.7:1 in 2025.

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