Du Quoin Middle School

Du Quoin Middle School, a modestly sized 6-8 campus in Du Quoin, Illinois, overseen by Du Quoin CUSD 300, instructs 376 students, covering grades 5 through 8.

Du Quoin Middle School is one of 3 schools operated by Du Quoin CUSD 300, a district that instructs 1,329 students overall.

On demographics, Du Quoin Middle School logs that 86% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school logs 9% multiracial, 3% Black. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.9:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.0:1 average. About 57% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Du Quoin Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 38.5%, the actual is 44.9%, a residual of +6.4 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Perry County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $62,118 per year, about 14% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. Across Perry County's 12 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,545 students), Du Quoin Middle School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Du Quoin Elementary School, roughly 0.0 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Du Quoin Middle School. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Du Quoin Middle School ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 35.2%.

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

Over the past 7-year window. Du Quoin Middle School's enrollment has decreased 20% since 2018, when it stood at 469 (now 376). The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 16.1:1 in 2018 to 11.9:1 today.

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