Summary:
The Brimfield Grade School is the sole elementary school located within the Brimfield CUSD 309 district in Illinois. Serving grades PK-8, the school has a total enrollment of 403 students and is ranked in the top half of Illinois elementary schools for the 2024-2025 school year.
Brimfield Grade School is a relatively strong-performing school, maintaining a 3-star rating from SchoolDigger for the past three years. The school outperforms the state average in English Language Arts proficiency across all grade levels, with particularly strong performance in 7th and 8th grades. In Mathematics, the school's performance is more mixed, with some grade levels exceeding the state average and others falling below. Science proficiency is also strong, with 5th and 8th-grade students exceeding the state average.
The school has a relatively low percentage of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch at 20.84% in 2023-2024, and a student-teacher ratio of 13.4, which is lower than the state average. Brimfield Grade School spends $15,193 per student, which is higher than the state average, suggesting the district is investing resources into the school. However, the school's chronic absenteeism rate of 25.4% in 2024-2025 is relatively high and could be an area of concern for the school and district to address.
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