Worden Elementary School

Located at 110 N Main St, in Worden, Illinois, Worden Elementary School is a close-knit elementary-level community that hosts 258 students (grades 3 through 5), operated by Edwardsville CUSD 7. That puts it 32% leaner than the typical public school in Illinois, which averages around 381 students.

Within Edwardsville CUSD 7, which oversees 13 schools and 7,060 students, Worden Elementary School is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Worden Elementary School logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (89%); the rest looks like 6% multiracial, 4% Hispanic.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.2:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.9:1 average. Roughly 26% of students at Worden Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Madison County (around 46%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Worden Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 56.3%, the actual is 52.5%, a residual of -3.8 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Madison County shows median household income runs about $75,793, 31% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Worden Elementary School is one of 84 public schools in Madison County (combined enrollment of about 35,253 students).

Nearest neighbor: Hamel Elementary School, around 3.1 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Worden Elementary School at 4th of 7; the average score across the group is 49.5%.

Geographically, the school is in a rural area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Worden Elementary School has rose 4%, going from 248 students in 2018 to 258 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 18.8:1 in 2018 to 15.2:1 today.

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