Civic Memorial High School

Civic Memorial High School, a reasonably sized senior high in Bethalto, Illinois, part of Bethalto CUSD 8, teaches 760 students, covering grades 9 through 12.

Bethalto CUSD 8 runs 5 schools in total, collectively educating 2,368 students. Civic Memorial High School is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Civic Memorial High School shows that 87% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 6% multiracial, 5% Hispanic. That composition is broadly in line with Madison County as a whole.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Civic Memorial High School has 51 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.8:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.8:1 average. Roughly 43% of students at Civic Memorial High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Civic Memorial High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 46.9%, the actual is 43.0%, a residual of -3.9 points.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Madison County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $75,793 per year, roughly 31% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Across Madison County's 84 public schools (combined enrollment of about 35,253 students), Civic Memorial High School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Wilbur Trimpe Middle School, around 0.5 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Civic Memorial High School comes 1st of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 33.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count held roughly steady: 768 students in 2018 compared to 760 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 92% to 87% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 18.0:1 in 2018 to 14.8:1 today.

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