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Enrollment
434
Middle
DISTRICT 200 · STATE 462
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·EAST PEORIA SD 86·NCES 171324001569
Central Jr High School
601 Taylor St, East Peoria, IL 61611 · (309) 427-5200 · Tazewell County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL434 STUDENTS
C
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Scored higher than 28% of Illinois public middle schools
- C+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Illinois public middle schools
Student : Teacher
11.0:1
39 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.4:1 · STATE 13.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
47%
202 students
DISTRICT 51% · STATE 56%
Community
5
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 144 | 33% |
| Grade 7 | 139 | 32% |
| Grade 8 | 151 | 35% |
Student demographics
29%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 32% · STATE 69% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within East Peoria SD 86. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
IAR + ISA 2024-25 . % Proficient (Levels 4-5)English Language Arts
46.4%
IL avg 51.0% . +14.6pp since 2023
Math
26.4%
IL avg 37.9% . +5.4pp since 2023
What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 46 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 26 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Illinois schools, those numbers are about 51 and 38. Reading and writing scores are up about 15 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 5 points.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 46.4% | 26.4% |
| 2023-24 | 31.8% | 21.0% |
% Proficient (Levels 4-5), all students and all tested grades.
Source: IAR + ISA. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
38.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
44.6%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-6.2pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 38% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 45% typical for Illinois schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Illinois's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Central Jr High School
Central Jr High School's state test result (38.4% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Central Jr High School this school | 434 | 46.5% | 38.4% |
| Effingham Junior High School Effingham | 458 | 43.7% | 41.9% |
| Charleston Middle School Charleston | 401 | 48.1% | 39.9% |
| Olympia Middle School Stanford | 380 | 44.5% | 49.8% |
| Wilbur Trimpe Middle School Bethalto | 556 | 46.9% | 37.6% |
| Moulton Elementary School Shelbyville | 455 | 44.8% | 51.2% |
Matched among Illinois middle schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Central Jr High School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Illinois | In Tazewell County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 38.4% | #352 of 578 | #8 of 14 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 26.4% | #402 of 640 ▼ 24 | #8 of 14 ▼ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 46.4% | #441 of 640 ▲ 40 | #10 of 14 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 434 | #339 of 691 | #4 of 15 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.0:1 | #94 of 558 | #3 of 12 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 28.5% | #412 of 560 | #1 of 12 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 46.5% | #327 of 581 | #9 of 14 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -24.8% | #47 of 440 | #2 of 11 |
Ranked against other public middle schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
434
-58 (-12%) vs 2020
-35% since 1990-91, when it was 667
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 434 | 39.5 | 11.0:1 | 47% (202) |
| 2023-24 | 426 | 41.5 | 10.3:1 | 54% (232) |
| 2022-23 | 462 | 41.5 | 11.1:1 | 54% (249) |
| 2020-21 | 492 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 577 | 38.9 | 14.8:1 | 46% (268) |
| 2015-16 | 550 | 40 | 13.8:1 | 45% (249) |
| 2010-11 | 622 | 40 | 15.6:1 | 38% (239) |
| 2000-01 | 659 | 45 | 14.6:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 667 | 39 | 17.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Central Jr High School.
Since 2017-18: students down 25% (577 to 434); teachers up 1% (38.9 to 39.5).
About Central Jr High School
East Peoria, Illinois, is home to Central Jr High School, a medium-sized middle-grades school. A federal count lists 434 students at the school, in grades 6 through 8.
East Peoria SD 86 has 1,401 students in 7 schools, and Central Jr High School is one of those schools.
About 84% of the student body at Central Jr High School is White. Smaller groups are 6% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, and 4% Black. County-wide, 93% of Tazewell County residents are White. Central Jr High School's diversity index is 29%, against a US figure of 70%.
Federal data list 39.5 full-time-equivalent teachers at Central Jr High School in 2024-25, for a ratio of 11.0:1. That is lower than the 13.0:1 average for middle schools in Illinois. The lunch program counts 47% of students at Central Jr High School as eligible for free or reduced-price meals.
Measured against Illinois public middle schools, Central Jr High School receives a C. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
Central Jr High School's actual average proficiency rate on state tests (38.4%) and its predicted rate (44.6%) put it outside the top and bottom 10% of Illinois schools.
Across Tazewell County, the median household income is $77,982, roughly 28% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Tazewell County is home to 56 public schools and about 18,581 public school students.
Of nearby public schools, Lincoln Elementary School is the closest, at about 0.6 miles. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of Central Jr High School. On proficiency, Central Jr High School is ahead of the 33.7% nearby average, ranking 3rd of 7.
NCES lists the school's locale as Suburb: Large. That means it sits in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
The school enrolled 434 students in 2024-25, 58 fewer than the 492 it had in 2020-21.
Conversations here can range across science fairs, picture day, and bus routes. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.
Tazewell County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
130,290
Census ACS
Median income
$77,982
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
28%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
56
18,581 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in East Peoria SD 86
- Don D Shute Elementary SchoolElementary · 206 students
- Woodrow Wilson Elementary SchoolElementary · 162 students
- Armstrong-Oakview Elementary SchoolElementary · 155 students
- Glendale Elementary SchoolElementary · 151 students
- Lincoln Elementary SchoolElementary · 148 students
- P L Bolin Elementary SchoolElementary · 145 students
Other schools in East Peoria
- East Peoria High SchoolHigh · 823 students
- Riverview Elementary SchoolElementary · 220 students
- Don D Shute Elementary SchoolElementary · 206 students
- Woodrow Wilson Elementary SchoolElementary · 162 students
- Armstrong-Oakview Elementary SchoolElementary · 155 students
- Glendale Elementary SchoolElementary · 151 students
Other Central Junior High schools
9 other US public schools in 5 states are named Central Junior High. Central Jr High School is the 6th largest of the 10.
- Central Jr High SchoolBelleville, IL · 308 students
- Central Junior HighKewanee, IL · 235 students
- Central Junior High SchoolCamp Point, IL · 221 students
- Central Jr High SchoolWest Frankfort, IL · 215 students
- Central Junior High SchoolEULESS, TX · 1,061 students
Nearby schools
- Lincoln Elementary School0.6 mi · 148
- East Peoria High School0.8 mi · 823
- Glendale Elementary School1.1 mi · 151
- LaSalle Elementary School1.7 mi · 262
- Parkview Jr High School1.7 mi · 193
- P L Bolin Elementary School1.9 mi · 145
Frequently asked questions
About Central Jr High SchoolHow many students attend Central Jr High School?
Central Jr High School enrolls approximately 434 students in grades 06-08.
Is Central Jr High School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Central Jr High School is a middle school covering grades 06-08.
How many teachers does Central Jr High School have?
Central Jr High School employs 39 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 11.0:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Central Jr High School?
At Central Jr High School, the student body is approximately 84% White, 6% Hispanic, 4% Black, 1% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Is Central Jr High School public or private?
Central Jr High School is a public K-12 school, overseen by East Peoria SD 86.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.