Coulterville Elementary School, Coulterville IL

Original Research by School Decision on Coulterville Elementary School

Coulterville Elementary School serves grades pre-K through five in a rural village setting in southern Illinois. The school is small, with an enrollment in the low double digits across its grade band. The student body is predominantly white, with a handful of students from Hispanic and other backgrounds.

The school's most recent state assessment results, from the current school year, show patterns worth understanding. In third grade, proficiency in both math and English language arts sits around the midpoint. Fourth grade shows notably higher math performance, but language arts drops sharply. Fifth grade presents the most significant concern: math proficiency is very low, and no students met the proficiency threshold in English language arts. Science proficiency in fifth grade is also quite low. The school achieved full participation in all tested subjects and grades, meaning the data reflects the entire student population.

These results vary substantially by grade, which raises questions a parent may want to explore directly with the school. Grade-to-grade swings this wide can reflect shifts in student composition, changes in instruction, or the small-cohort nature of a rural elementary school, where a handful of students can shift a percentage point substantially. The notably low performance in fifth grade, the school's highest tested grade, is worth a direct conversation about what's driving those outcomes and what intervention or support is in place.

Coulterville Elementary sits above the midpoint among the schools and districts in Randolph County when looking at overall proficiency across tested subjects and grades, which positions it in the middle of the local peer group.

The school is located on West Grant Street in Coulterville, a small rural village where the school is embedded in an everyday small-town environment. The surrounding community has experienced population decline over the past generation. Coal mining remains a regional economic anchor, and most residents own their homes. The school serves a stable, established community rather than one in active growth.

No data was available on free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, special education enrollment, English learner populations, staffing, attendance, or discipline. The school's website and publicly reported strategic initiatives were not located in available sources.

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Academic performance

How students perform on state tests, by grade, set against the district.

Math

Grade 353%

School 53% · District 53%

▲ 7 pts above state median

Grade 469%

School 69% · District 69%

▲ 32 pts above state median

Grade 518%

School 18% · District 18%

▼ 12 pts below state median

English language arts

Grade 353%

School 53% · District 53%

▲ 9 pts above state median

Grade 431%

School 31% · District 31%

▼ 17 pts below state median

Grade 50%

School 0% · District 0%

▼ 52 pts below state median

Science

Grade 527%

School 27% · District 27%

▼ 9 pts below state median

This schoolCoulterville USD 1, same grade

Graduation rate (ACGR) reflects the federally published Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate for the most recent year available. We refresh this data annually at the close of each academic year in June. The federal source publishes a banded rate (for example, "90-94%") instead of an exact number for cohorts small enough to risk identifying individual students. The state distribution chart, where shown, plots every school in the state with a published rate or band; schools whose rate is federally suppressed are excluded. Where the federal source publishes a band rather than an exact rate, the school is placed within its band using a stable, ID-derived offset, so its position is consistent across visits.