Bluffs Junior High School

Located at 100 W Rockwood St, in Bluffs, Illinois, Bluffs Junior High School is a rural-scale intermediate school that teaches 37 students (grades 6 through 8), one of the schools within Scott-Morgan CUSD 2. That puts it 92% below the typical public school in Illinois, which averages around 462 students.

Bluffs Junior High School is one of 3 schools operated by Scott-Morgan CUSD 2, a district that educates 169 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Bluffs Junior High School logs that 100% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority.

In terms of school funding signals, Bluffs Junior High School lists 4 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 8.3:1. The state averages around 13.0:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 49% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Bluffs Junior High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 43.4%, the actual is 44.9%, a residual of +1.5 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Scott County indicate the typical household earns roughly $66,705 per year, about 22% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. In all, Scott County runs 5 public schools (combined enrollment of about 736 students), of which Bluffs Junior High School is one.

Bluffs Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Bluffs Junior High School. On composite proficiency, Bluffs Junior High School comes 3rd of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 32.2%.

The campus sits in an outlying setting.

Five-year trend. Bluffs Junior High School's enrollment has edged up 19% since 2018, when it stood at 31 (now 37). The White share of enrollment expanded from 90% to 100% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 6.7:1 in 2018 to 8.3:1 today.

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