Wilson Elem School

Wilson Elem School, a mid-tier primary school in Granite City, Illinois, one of the schools within Granite City CUSD 9, teaches 448 students, covering grades 1 through 2.

Across the 8 schools in Granite City CUSD 9 (5,747 students total), Wilson Elem School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, Wilson Elem School lists that the most-represented group is White (43%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder comes out to 28% Black, 17% Hispanic, 12% multiracial. By comparison, Madison County as a whole is about 83% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.9:1, putting Wilson Elem School higher than the state norm the norm. About 77% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is above Madison County's rate of about 46%.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Madison County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $75,793 per year, about 31% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Across Madison County's 84 public schools (combined enrollment of about 35,253 students), Wilson Elem School is one campus in the mix.

Frohardt Elem School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Wilson Elem School.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

Over the past 7-year window. Wilson Elem School's enrollment has remained close to its prior level since 2018, when it stood at 453 (now 448). Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 63% to 43%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 18.1:1 in 2018 to 14.9:1 today.

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