Coal City High School

Coal City High School operates as a modestly sized 9-12 campus in Coal City, Illinois, one of the schools within Coal City CUSD 1. Current enrollment sits at 642 students spanning grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Illinois's public schools average about 834 students each, so Coal City High School sits 23% below that benchmark.

Coal City High School is one of 5 schools operated by Coal City CUSD 1, a district that works with 2,129 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Coal City High School lists that nearly all students (86%) are White. The remainder looks like 11% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, On paper, Coal City High School has 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.8:1. The state averages around 13.8:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 28% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

After controlling for student poverty, Coal City High School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 55.1%; this one delivers 48.4%.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Grundy County put the typical household earns roughly $92,235 per year, about 24% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Across Grundy County's 28 public schools (combined enrollment of about 12,070 students), Coal City High School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Coal City Middle School, around 0.5 miles off. Within five miles, there are 6 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Coal City High School ranks 6th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 49.3%.

Geographically, the school is in a town-center area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Coal City High School has edged down 3%, going from 662 students in 2018 to 642 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 90% to 86% across the same window.

In the discussion threads here, posts here usually surface around enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. Members of the school community can share what they know.