Carbondale Comm H S

Carbondale Comm H S is a medium-sized secondary school in Carbondale, Illinois, overseen by Carbondale CHSD 165. The school serves 1,023 students in grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Illinois's public schools average about 834 students each, so Carbondale Comm H S sits 23% bigger than that benchmark.

Carbondale Comm H S is a school of Carbondale CHSD 165, the district that handles curriculum, staffing, and budget for the campus.

On the student-mix side, Carbondale Comm H S shows that 46% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest breaks down as 30% Black, 11% Hispanic, 9% multiracial, 3% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 73% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, The school employs 73 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.1:1. The state averages about 13.8:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 61% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Jackson County runs at roughly 73%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Carbondale Comm H S tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 36.2% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 39.1%.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Jackson County put median household earnings sit near $48,763, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. Across Jackson County's 32 public schools (combined enrollment of about 6,811 students), Carbondale Comm H S is one campus in the mix.

Carbondale Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Carbondale Comm H S. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Carbondale Comm H S ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 42.3%.

Carbondale Comm H S operates from a town-based location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Carbondale Comm H S has expanded 3%, going from 990 students in 2018 to 1,023 in 2025. The White share of enrollment contracted from 54% to 46% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 13.1:1 in 2018 to 14.1:1 today.

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