Princeville Elem School, Princeville IL

Original Research by School Decision on Princeville Elem School

Princeville Elem School is a small rural elementary school serving pre-kindergarten through fifth grade in a quiet village in northwest Peoria County. The school has an enrollment of about three hundred students distributed across seven grades, with a notably white student body (about eighty-five percent), a modest Hispanic enrollment (around eleven percent), and very few students of other racial or ethnic backgrounds. Demographic breakdown by free-or-reduced-price lunch eligibility was not available in the data.

The school's academic performance shows mixed results across tested grades and subjects. In English language arts, proficiency ranges widely: third grade sits at a low point, while fifth grade performs considerably better. Math performance is more consistent across grades three through five, hovering in the mid-range. Fifth grade science proficiency comes in at about the middle of the distribution. Overall, the school's proficiency index places it below the midpoint compared to other districts in Peoria County, suggesting academic performance that lags behind many peer schools in the region.

Third grade English language arts is a particular soft spot that a parent may want to look into further with the school, as results there are notably lower than in other tested grades and subjects. The school achieved full participation rates on all assessments where data was reported, indicating strong test administration practices.

Princeville Elem sits in a small village with a flat to slightly declining population, where the school district is the largest local employer and civic life centers on a compact downtown anchored by the library, heritage museum, and Stevens Square Park. The Rock Island Trail runs through town as a recreation spine. The area is car-dependent with no public transit; Peoria is about fifteen miles southeast. Housing values in the area are moderate relative to state and national benchmarks, and the market moves slowly, with homes spending extended periods listed.

The school serves a quiet, low-traffic residential community with a mixed blue-collar and white-collar workforce. Families here are choosing a small-town K-12 experience in a stable, incremental-growth village setting where the school is woven into local civic fabric. The data sections on the page show the specific proficiency rates for each grade and subject; this prose flags the pattern that performance is below the county median and varies notably across grades, particularly in early literacy, a dynamic parents should discuss with the school directly.

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Academic performance

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

Math

Grade 349%

School 49% · District 49%

▲ 3 pts above state median · ▲ 4 pts above county median

Grade 450%

School 50% · District 50%

▲ 13 pts above state median · ▲ 16 pts above county median

Grade 541%

School 41% · District 41%

▲ 11 pts above state median · ▲ 9 pts above county median

English language arts

Grade 320%

School 20% · District 20%

▼ 24 pts below state median · ▼ 20 pts below county median

Grade 449%

School 49% · District 49%

▲ 1 pts above state median · even with county median

Grade 557%

School 57% · District 57%

▲ 5 pts above state median · ▲ 9 pts above county median

Science

Grade 552%

School 52% · District 52%

▲ 16 pts above state median · ▲ 23 pts above county median

This schoolPrinceville CUSD 326, 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.