Beardstown Jr/Sr High School

Beardstown Jr/Sr High School operates as a medium-sized senior high in Beardstown, Illinois, one of the schools within Beardstown CUSD 15. Current enrollment sits at 820 students spanning grades 5 through 12.

Across the 3 schools in Beardstown CUSD 15 (1,702 students total), Beardstown Jr/Sr High School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, Beardstown Jr/Sr High School reports that Hispanic students make up the majority at 55%. Beyond that, the school shows 28% White, 12% Black, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Cass County as a whole is about 23% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Beardstown Jr/Sr High School logs 53 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.8:1, putting Beardstown Jr/Sr High School higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 77% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably above Cass County's rate of about 69%.

After controlling for student poverty, Beardstown Jr/Sr High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 26.9%, the actual is 19.0%, a residual of -7.9 points.

In the area at large, census data for Cass County shows the typical household earns roughly $68,125 per year, 21% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. In all, Cass County runs 8 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,352 students), of which Beardstown Jr/Sr High School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Gard Elementary School, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Beardstown Jr/Sr High School. On composite proficiency, Beardstown Jr/Sr High School comes 6th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 31.5%.

Beardstown Jr/Sr High School operates from a small-town location.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Beardstown Jr/Sr High School has decreased 8%, going from 891 students in 2018 to 820 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 39% to 28% across the same window.

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