Ewing-northern Elem School, Ewing IL

Original Research by School Decision on Ewing-northern Elem School

Ewing-Northern Elementary School serves prekindergarten through eighth grade in Ewing, a very small, predominantly residential village in northern Franklin County in southern Illinois. The school enrolls a small student body drawn from a stable rural community with an older housing stock and modest population.

The school's academic profile shows strength in English language arts across most grade levels, where proficiency runs solidly. Third and fourth graders show particularly strong performance in ELA, while eighth graders also demonstrate high proficiency. Math proficiency is more uneven. Third graders perform well, and performance recovers in fifth grade and again in eighth grade, but fourth and sixth graders show notably lower results. Sixth grade math proficiency in particular dips considerably below the school's performance in other grades and subjects. Science results are available only for fifth and eighth grades; eighth graders show solid proficiency while fifth graders fall below that mark. All students participate in state assessments.

Relative to the other districts in Franklin County, Ewing-Northern's overall proficiency across tested subjects and grades sits in the top quartile, a meaningful distinction in its county context.

The student body is almost entirely white, with a very small Asian enrollment and no reported students from other racial or ethnic groups. The school serves no reported students with disabilities (or counts are unavailable) and no English learners (or counts are unavailable). Demographic reporting gaps make it unclear whether these represent genuinely low numbers or missing data; a parent seeking more detail about special services should ask the school directly. No data on free or reduced-price lunch eligibility was available.

The school sits physically in the village center on North Main Street rather than on a separated campus, and the building itself is the civic anchor of Ewing's small civic life. The immediate surrounding area is low-density and rural with minimal street-level commercial activity. Rend Lake and Wayne Fitzgerrell State Recreation Area, both with substantial shorelines and regional draw, sit within the township. The village has only a handful of employers; Ewing-Northern CCSD itself is a notable in-village employer. Major institutions serving the region sit nearby, including Rend Lake College in Ina and Big Muddy River Correctional Center, also in Ina.

Housing in the area is modestly valued and affordable on mortgage terms when compared to state and national benchmarks. The median household income in the surrounding ZIP area runs meaningfully below the Illinois average.

The school does not have a high school; students transition to school outside the district upon completion of eighth grade. No data on district strategic priorities, curriculum changes, or recent referendums were found, suggesting either stability or limited public communication of such changes in this very small district.

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Academic performance

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

Math

Grade 377%

School 77% · District 77%

▲ 31 pts above state median

Grade 462%

School 62% · District 62%

▲ 25 pts above state median

Grade 574%

School 74% · District 74%

▲ 44 pts above state median

Grade 644%

School 44% · District 44%

▲ 20 pts above state median

Grade 755%

School 55% · District 55%

▲ 26 pts above state median

Grade 872%

School 72% · District 72%

▲ 49 pts above state median

English language arts

Grade 384%

School 84% · District 84%

▲ 40 pts above state median

Grade 486%

School 86% · District 86%

▲ 38 pts above state median

Grade 574%

School 74% · District 74%

▲ 22 pts above state median

Grade 675%

School 75% · District 75%

▲ 25 pts above state median

Grade 774%

School 74% · District 74%

▲ 23 pts above state median

Grade 888%

School 88% · District 88%

▲ 35 pts above state median

Science

Grade 557%

School 57% · District 57%

▲ 20 pts above state median

Grade 876%

School 76% · District 76%

▲ 36 pts above state median

This schoolEwing Northern CCSD 115, 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.