Cumberland Middle School

Located at 1496 Illinois Route 121, in Toledo, Illinois, Cumberland Middle School is a tight-knit middle school that instructs 282 students (grades 5 through 8), operated by Cumberland CUSD 77. By comparison, Illinois's public schools average about 462 students each, so Cumberland Middle School sits 39% below that benchmark.

Within Cumberland CUSD 77, which oversees 3 schools and 972 students, Cumberland Middle School is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Cumberland Middle School lists that nearly all students (97%) are White. That composition is broadly in line with Cumberland County as a whole.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Cumberland Middle School has 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 20.0:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.0:1 average. Roughly 36% of students at Cumberland Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

After controlling for student poverty, Cumberland Middle School is in the bottom 10% of Illinois public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 50.8%; Cumberland Middle School posts 30.1%, -20.8 points below that line.

Zooming out to the county, Cumberland County reports that the typical household earns roughly $73,327 per year, 20% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Cumberland County runs 7 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,493 students), of which Cumberland Middle School is one.

Cumberland High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Cumberland Middle School comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 40.9%.

The school occupies a countryside site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Cumberland Middle School has fell 7%, going from 304 students in 2018 to 282 in 2025. Class-load math has rose: from 18.7:1 in 2018 to 20.0:1 in 2025.

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