Facts about SRC
Spoon River College was founded in 1959 as Canton Community College and was reorganized in 1968 as Spoon River College.
Spoon River College serves 4,000 credit students per year in a 1,566 square miles area including portions of Fulton, McDonough, Mason, Schuyler and Knox counties.
- Tax Information
2006 Assessed Valuation $639 million
2005 Taxes Levied $3.2 million
Current Tax Rate .4950 per $100 EAV
- Enrollment Statistics (2005-2006 academic year)
4,864 credit students per year
2,109 non-credit students per year
- The College draws the majority of its students from: Fulton County; McDonough County; Mason County; Schuyler County.
- The college employs 40 full-time faculty and approximately 80 part-time faculty.
- Financial aid through grants, loans, student work study programs, and scholarships (more than 130 scholarships totaling nearly $50,000 are distributed by the Spoon River College Foundation each year).
- Since 1998, more than 5000 individuals in the district have participated in customized job training offered by Spoon River College.
- Over $3 million per year in financial aid brought into the district.
- The Spoon River College Adult Education program saved Illinois tax payers more than 172,400 in public aid monies.
- 330 former Adult Basic Education/General Education diploma students are now employed.
Facts about the Illinois Community College System - Illinois Community College Board
Facts and Stats About Illinois Community Colleges – Illinois Community College Trustees Association
Fast Facts – American Association of Community Colleges
