Carrollton High School

Carrollton High School is a 9-12 campus of micro-enrollment scale in Carrollton, Illinois, part of Carrollton CUSD 1, hosting 180 students in grades 9 through 12. That puts it 78% below the typical public school in Illinois, which averages around 834 students.

Within Carrollton CUSD 1, which oversees 2 schools and 449 students, Carrollton High School is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Carrollton High School reports that the student body is overwhelmingly White (94%); the rest comes out to 3% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Greene County as a whole.

On the income-and-resources front, Carrollton High School reports 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.8:1, putting Carrollton High School tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 39% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Greene County (around 49%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Carrollton High School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 48.7% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 35.3%.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Greene County indicate the typical household earns roughly $62,192 per year, roughly 19% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Greene County runs 8 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,703 students), of which Carrollton High School is one.

Carrollton Grade School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. On composite proficiency, Carrollton High School comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 38.2%.

Carrollton High School operates from a countryside location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 13%: 208 students in 2018 compared to 180 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 11.2:1 in 2018 to 10.0:1 in 2025.

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