Eastland Jr/Sr High School

Eastland Jr/Sr High School operates as a minimally staffed 9-12 campus in Lanark, Illinois, overseen by Eastland CUSD 308. Current enrollment sits at 298 students spanning grades 7 through 12. That puts it 64% below the typical public school in Illinois, which averages around 834 students.

Eastland Jr/Sr High School is one of 2 schools operated by Eastland CUSD 308, a district that works with 731 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Eastland Jr/Sr High School shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (89%). Beyond that, the school logs 5% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, Eastland Jr/Sr High School shows 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.8:1 average. Around 41% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is lower than Carroll County's rate of about 49%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Eastland Jr/Sr High School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 47.9% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 54.9%.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Carroll County indicate median household earnings sit near $60,758, roughly 18% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. In all, Carroll County runs 7 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,945 students), of which Eastland Jr/Sr High School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Eastland Elementary School, around 5.8 miles off. Within ten miles, there are 4 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. On composite proficiency, Eastland Jr/Sr High School comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 49.7%.

The school occupies an outlying site.

Five-year trend. Eastland Jr/Sr High School's enrollment has held roughly steady since 2018, when it stood at 297 (now 298).

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