Stewardson-strasburg Elem School, Strasburg IL

Original Research by School Decision on Stewardson-strasburg Elem School

Stewardson-Strasburg Elementary School serves students from pre-kindergarten through eighth grade in Strasburg, a very small, predominantly rural village in Shelby County in central Illinois. The school sits on a campus between the villages of Stewardson and Strasburg on Illinois Route 32, removed from the village center rather than embedded in it. The building houses both the elementary program described here and the high school, with enrollment across both sections totaling around students.

The student body is predominantly white, with very small numbers of Hispanic and multiracial students and a handful from other backgrounds. Total enrollment at the elementary level is small for its grade band. Free-or-reduced-price lunch data was not available, so a reader cannot see how much economic need the school serves from that measure. English learner and special education enrollment figures were not reported.

Math and English language arts proficiency results show a pattern of strength in the earliest grades tested, with performance declining as students advance. In third grade, students show solid math and language arts proficiency, but by sixth grade, math proficiency falls to a much lower level, and both subjects show drops in the middle grades before stabilizing somewhat by eighth grade. Science testing occurs only in grades five and eight; fifth graders show solid proficiency while eighth graders perform more modestly. The school reports universal participation in tested grades, suggesting no systematic gaps in assessment access. A parent may want to look into what instructional shifts occur around the fourth-grade threshold and what supports exist for students in the sixth and seventh grade transition.

Relative to other districts in Shelby County, Stewardson-Strasburg Elementary's overall proficiency index places it in the top quartile. This positioning reflects strength in early elementary, though the decline in middle grades pulls the overall average down. The school does not serve grades that trigger high school graduation rates, so that metric does not apply.

The locale brief describes Strasburg itself as a quiet, car-oriented village with aging single-family housing stock and flat or declining population. The built environment is not walkable in the traditional sense; daily life centers on a small main street and the village park rather than continuous commercial activity. The Strasburg Park serves as the primary civic gathering space. Employment in the village is small in absolute terms, with manufacturing, health care, and retail being the largest sectors; agriculture remains foundational to the surrounding rural economy. A recent district development of note: the high school's athletic co-op with Windsor, which had been at risk, was renegotiated and renewed, preserving the small school's ability to field competitive teams through combined enrollment.

School testing data for grades below third and district-wide strategic priorities were not available, so they are not included here. Civil rights detail beyond race-ethnicity was not provided in the data.

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Academic performance

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

Math

Grade 383%

School 83% · District 83%

▲ 37 pts above state median

Grade 459%

School 59% · District 59%

▲ 23 pts above state median

Grade 552%

School 52% · District 52%

▲ 22 pts above state median

Grade 626%

School 26% · District 26%

▲ 2 pts above state median

Grade 748%

School 48% · District 48%

▲ 19 pts above state median

Grade 844%

School 44% · District 44%

▲ 22 pts above state median

English language arts

Grade 367%

School 67% · District 67%

▲ 23 pts above state median

Grade 475%

School 75% · District 75%

▲ 27 pts above state median

Grade 571%

School 71% · District 71%

▲ 19 pts above state median

Grade 648%

School 48% · District 48%

▼ 2 pts below state median

Grade 757%

School 57% · District 57%

▲ 5 pts above state median

Grade 858%

School 58% · District 58%

▲ 5 pts above state median

Science

Grade 571%

School 71% · District 71%

▲ 34 pts above state median

Grade 851%

School 51% · District 51%

▲ 12 pts above state median

This schoolStewardson-Strasburg CUD 5A, 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.