Effingham Junior High School

Effingham Junior High School operates as a middle-of-the-pack middle school in Effingham, Illinois, overseen by Effingham CUSD 40. Current enrollment sits at 458 students spanning grades 6 through 8.

Effingham CUSD 40 comprises 6 schools with combined enrollment of 2,261 students; Effingham Junior High School is among them.

Demographically, Effingham Junior High School shows that nearly all students (85%) are White. Other groups include 9% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Effingham County as a whole is about 96% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Effingham Junior High School has 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.0:1. The state averages about 13.0:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 44% of students at Effingham Junior High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

With demographic context factored in, Effingham Junior High School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 46.3%; this one delivers 41.9%.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Effingham County indicate median household earnings sit near $80,404, 27% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Effingham Junior High School is one of 18 public schools in Effingham County (combined enrollment of about 5,063 students).

Effingham High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Effingham Junior High School. On composite proficiency, Effingham Junior High School comes 6th of 6 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 59.0%.

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

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Effingham Junior High School has declined 21%, going from 581 students in 2018 to 458 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment climbed from 4% to 9% over that span. Class-load math has narrowed: from 17.8:1 in 2018 to 13.0:1 in 2025.

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