Bushnell-Prairie City Elementary School has scheduled its Spring Picture Day for Tuesday, March 3. The event’s order code is 0408HQF.
Bushnell-Prairie City Elementary School is part of the Bushnell Prairie City Community Unit School District 170, which includes schools in both McDonough and Fulton counties. The district also covers Bushnell-Prairie City High School and Bushnell-Prairie City Junior High School. More information about the district can be found at https://www.illinoisreportcard.com/.
According to data from the Illinois State Board of Education, the district employs 60 teachers with an average salary of $38,378 before pension contributions. Of these teachers, 75.2 percent are women and 24.8 percent are men. There were no teachers with more than ten absences during a school year. Additional details are available at https://www.illinoisreportcard.com/.
Demographic data show that the student population in Bushnell Prairie City Community Unit School District 170 is predominantly White (93.7 percent), with smaller percentages of Black (2.1 percent), Hispanic (1.6 percent), and Asian (0.2 percent) students, as reported by the ISBE: https://www.illinoisreportcard.com/.
In terms of spending, the district allocated $17,022 per student in 2020, totaling $10,485,546 for that year: https://www.illinoisreportcard.com/.
The Illinois State Board of Education also reported that during the 2020 school year, there were 23 students classified as “chronically truant” in the district—a rate of 3.7 percent—meaning these students missed five percent or more of required school days without a valid excuse. This rate is below the statewide average of 9.6 percent: https://www.illinoisreportcard.com/.
