Beecher City Jr-Sr High School

Beecher City Jr-Sr High School is one of the one-room-style senior highs in Beecher City, Illinois, one of the schools within Beecher City CUSD 20, with 165 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 12. That puts it 80% smaller than the typical public school in Illinois, which averages around 834 students.

Across the 2 schools in Beecher City CUSD 20 (361 students total), Beecher City Jr-Sr High School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Beecher City Jr-Sr High School shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (92%). The remainder breaks down as 2% Black, 2% multiracial.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school lists 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.0:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.8:1 average. An estimated 46% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Effingham County runs at roughly 37%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Beecher City Jr-Sr High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 44.9%, the actual is 41.3%, a residual of -3.6 points.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Effingham County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $80,404 per year, 27% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across Effingham County's 18 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,063 students), Beecher City Jr-Sr High School is one campus in the mix.

Beecher City Grade School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Beecher City Jr-Sr High School ranks 7th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 47.0%.

The school occupies a low-density site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Beecher City Jr-Sr High School has expanded 10%, going from 150 students in 2018 to 165 in 2025. The White share of enrollment ticked down from 98% to 92% over that span.

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