Winchester Elem School

Winchester Elem School is a moderately sized K-5 school in Winchester, Illinois, operated by Winchester CUSD 1. The school caters to 401 students in grades pre-K through 8.

Winchester CUSD 1 runs 2 schools in total, collectively educating 567 students. Winchester Elem School is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Winchester Elem School lists that 96% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 2% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, On paper, Winchester Elem School has 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.9:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 48% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

After controlling for student poverty, Winchester Elem School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 44.0% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 46.2%.

In the area at large, census data for Scott County shows the typical household earns roughly $66,705 per year, about 22% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Scott County runs 5 public schools (combined enrollment of about 736 students), of which Winchester Elem School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Winchester High School, around 0.2 miles off. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, Winchester Elem School comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 41.5%.

The campus sits in an outlying setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 8%: 435 students in 2018 compared to 401 in 2025.

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