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Public school / Primary

Putnam County Elem School

Hennepin, Illinois

NCES ID
173296004807
District
Putnam County CUSD 535
School type
Regular
Title I
Not designated

Putnam County Elem School is a public primary school in Hennepin, Illinois, run by Putnam County CUSD 535. It enrols 164 students — the 81490th largest of 4,435 public schools in Illinois.

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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

164students

81490th nationally, tied with 96

Teachers

13.0FTE

78940th nationally, tied with 1,474

Students per teacher

12.6students

25191st nationally, tied with 811

Free or reduced-price lunch

34.8%percent

65377th nationally, tied with 88

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.

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Within Putnam County CUSD 535

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.

Enrollment — same district
  1. 1Putnam County High School254 students
  2. 2Putnam Co Primary Sch227 students
  3. 3Putnam County Elem School164 students
  4. 4Putnam County Jr High School162 students
Distance from the state median

Baseline: Illinois median across 4,435 public schools. Bars right of the rule are above it.

  • Enrollment−59.4%
  • Teachers−50.0%
  • Students per teacher−8.0%
  • Free or reduced-price lunch−34.8%
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Where this sits

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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
Current · as of August 17, 2026U.S. Public Domain (NCES)

Collected and published by NCES; retrieved through the Urban Institute Education Data Portal, which republishes the NCES files unchanged.

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Data as of September 1, 2022.