Dunlap Middle School

Located at 5200 W Cedar Hills Dr, in Dunlap, Illinois, Dunlap Middle School is a reasonably sized middle-grades school that educates 541 students (grades 6 through 8), overseen by Dunlap CUSD 323.

Dunlap CUSD 323 runs 8 schools in total, collectively educating 4,837 students. Dunlap Middle School is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Dunlap Middle School records that the most-represented group is White (52%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder looks like 27% Asian, 8% multiracial, 7% Black, 5% Hispanic. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 67%.

On the income-and-resources front, Dunlap Middle School shows 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.4:1. The state averages around 13.0:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 15% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Peoria County runs at roughly 57%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Dunlap Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 62.8%, the actual is 74.8%, a residual of +12.0 points.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Peoria County indicate median household income runs about $65,108, 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Peoria County's 81 public schools (combined enrollment of about 27,827 students), Dunlap Middle School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Dunlap High School, roughly 0.2 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 7 other public schools cluster around Dunlap Middle School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Dunlap Middle School at 2nd of 9; the average score across the group is 66.6%.

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

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 18%: 656 students in 2018 compared to 541 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 62% to 52% across the same window.

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