Edinburg Jr High School

As a minimally staffed middle-grades school in Edinburg, Illinois, Edinburg Jr High School serves 62 students from grades 5 through 8, operated by Edinburg CUSD 4. That puts it 87% leaner than the typical public school in Illinois, which averages around 462 students.

Across the 3 schools in Edinburg CUSD 4 (212 students total), Edinburg Jr High School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, Edinburg Jr High School shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (98%).

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 6 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 9.7:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.0:1 average. Roughly 55% of students at Edinburg Jr High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Edinburg Jr High School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 39.9%; this one delivers 32.3%.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Christian County indicate median household earnings sit near $62,611, about 17% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across Christian County's 19 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,740 students), Edinburg Jr High School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Edinburg Elem School, roughly 0.0 miles away. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Edinburg Jr High School comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 31.7%.

The campus sits in a countryside setting.

Five-year trend. Edinburg Jr High School's enrollment has increased 17% since 2018, when it stood at 53 (now 62). The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 13.3:1 in 2018 to 9.7:1 today.

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