Bourbonnais Upper Grade Center

Bourbonnais Upper Grade Center is an intermediate school of average-sized scale in Bourbonnais, Illinois, one of the schools within Bourbonnais SD 53, educateing 484 students in grades 7 through 8.

Bourbonnais Upper Grade Center is one of 5 schools operated by Bourbonnais SD 53, a district that serves 2,276 students overall.

Looking at the student body, Bourbonnais Upper Grade Center logs that White students make up the majority at 65%. Other groups include 15% Hispanic, 13% Black, 6% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 73% White, putting the school's mix visibly less White than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.0:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.0:1 average. An estimated 48% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Kankakee County runs at roughly 61%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Bourbonnais Upper Grade Center sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 44.1%; this one delivers 42.9%.

In the broader community, Kankakee County reports that median household income runs about $71,281, about 21% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Bourbonnais Upper Grade Center is one of 44 public schools in Kankakee County (combined enrollment of about 16,499 students).

Alan B Shepard Elem School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Bourbonnais Upper Grade Center. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Bourbonnais Upper Grade Center at 4th of 8; the average score across the group is 40.3%.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.

Five-year trend. Bourbonnais Upper Grade Center's enrollment has edged down 7% since 2018, when it stood at 522 (now 484). The White share of enrollment declined from 70% to 65% over that span.

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