Auburn High School

Auburn High School is a 9-12 campus of heavily attended scale in Rockford, Illinois, overseen by Rockford SD 205, instructing 1,957 students in grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Illinois's public schools average about 834 students each, so Auburn High School sits 135% bigger than that benchmark.

Within Rockford SD 205, which oversees 44 schools and 28,467 students, Auburn High School is one campus in the system.

Demographically, Auburn High School lists that the largest single group is Black at 43%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school logs 26% White, 19% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, 4% Asian. By comparison, Winnebago County as a whole is about 12% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, The school currently runs with 102 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 19.2:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.8:1, putting Auburn High School higher than the state norm the norm. About 67% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

After controlling for student poverty, Auburn High School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 32.8%; this one delivers 31.5%.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Winnebago County) shows that median household income runs about $65,837, 25% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. Across Winnebago County's 94 public schools (combined enrollment of about 44,103 students), Auburn High School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Kennedy Middle School, around 0.3 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Auburn High School ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 18.5%.

The school occupies an urban site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Auburn High School has increased 8%, going from 1,805 students in 2018 to 1,957 in 2025. Class-load math has widened: from 17.1:1 in 2018 to 19.2:1 in 2025.

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