Danville High School

Set in Danville, Illinois, Danville High School is a sizable high school, one of the schools within Danville CCSD 118. It caters to 1,253 students across grades 9 through 12. That puts it 50% above the typical public school in Illinois, which averages around 834 students.

Danville CCSD 118 comprises 9 schools with combined enrollment of 4,940 students; Danville High School is among them.

On demographics, Danville High School logs that the most-represented group is Black (42%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest looks like 34% White, 12% Hispanic, 10% multiracial. By comparison, Vermilion County as a whole is about 15% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 83 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.1:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.8:1, putting Danville High School higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 83% of students at Danville High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Vermilion County (around 71%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

With demographic context factored in, Danville High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 23.6%, the actual is 19.1%, a residual of -4.5 points.

In the broader community, census data for Vermilion County shows the typical household earns roughly $56,877 per year, roughly 19% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 13% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Vermilion County runs 41 public schools (combined enrollment of about 11,267 students), of which Danville High School is one.

The closest other public school is Mark Denman Elementary School, roughly 1.1 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Danville High School comes 3rd of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 18.8%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 14%: 1,460 students in 2018 compared to 1,253 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 45% to 34% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 16.2:1 in 2018 to 15.1:1 in 2025.

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