Bolingbrook High School

Bolingbrook High School, a high-enrollment four-year high school in Bolingbrook, Illinois, one of the schools within Valley View CUSD 365U, instructs 3,298 students, covering grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Illinois's public schools average about 834 students each, so Bolingbrook High School sits 295% larger than that benchmark.

Valley View CUSD 365U runs 20 schools in total, collectively educating 14,710 students. Bolingbrook High School is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Bolingbrook High School reports that 47% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder comes out to 25% Black, 14% White, 7% Asian, 6% multiracial. By comparison, Will County as a whole is about 20% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 247 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.4:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Around 53% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Will County runs at roughly 44%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Bolingbrook High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 40.8%, the actual is 38.1%, a residual of -2.6 points.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Will County put median household earnings sit near $109,984, 38% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Will County's 209 public schools (combined enrollment of about 113,008 students), Bolingbrook High School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Independence Elem School, roughly 0.5 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Bolingbrook High School comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 42.4%.

The campus sits in an urban setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Bolingbrook High School has ticked down 7%, going from 3,550 students in 2018 to 3,298 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment climbed from 42% to 47% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 14.7:1 in 2018 to 13.4:1 today.

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