Public school / Primary
Belle Alexander Elem School
Kewanee, Illinois
- NCES ID
- 172100002381
- District
- Kewanee CUSD 229
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Belle Alexander Elem School is a public primary school in Kewanee, Illinois, run by Kewanee CUSD 229. It enrols 254 students — the 71781st largest of 4,435 public schools in Illinois.
Reported figures, 2022–2023
The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.
Enrollment
254
Teachers
16.0
Students per teacher
15.9
Free or reduced-price lunch
83.9%
How these figures are defined
Enrollment
Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.
Teachers
Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.
Students per teacher
Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.
Free or reduced-price lunch
Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.
Within Kewanee CUSD 229
Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.
- 1Kewanee High School581 students
- 2Central Elem344 students
- 3Belle Alexander Elem School254 students
- 4Central Junior High250 students
- 5Irving Elem School221 students
- 6Lyle School181 students
- 7Neponset Grade School138 students
- Enrollment−37.1%
- Teachers−38.5%
- Students per teacher+16.1%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+57.1%
Sources & licence
Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.
Provenance
- National Center for Education Statistics
- Common Core of Data — school and district directory