Elizabeth Eichelberger Elementary School, which opened in 2008, is one of the newest schools built by Plainfield Community Consolidated School District 202. The red-brick kindergarten-through-5th-grade building houses about 550 students and features a "gator" as its mascot. Principal, Trevor Harris, is particularly proud of the school's interaction with the Plainfield Historical Society, with which it shares a mission to educate children about the town in which they live.