Elverado Junior High School

Set in Vergennes, Illinois, Elverado Junior High School is a tiny middle school, overseen by Elverado CUSD 196. It educates 69 students across grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 85% smaller than the state mean of about 462.

Elverado CUSD 196 comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 348 students; Elverado Junior High School is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Elverado Junior High School shows that nearly all students (87%) are White. The remainder reads as 6% Black, 3% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 73% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully more White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Elverado Junior High School shows 7 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 9.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.0:1 average. About 68% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, Elverado Junior High School sits in the top 10% of Illinois schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 32.2%; actual is 48.7%, +16.5 points clear of the demographic baseline.

In the area at large, Jackson County reports that median household earnings sit near $48,763, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Elverado Junior High School is one of 32 public schools in Jackson County (combined enrollment of about 6,811 students).

The closest other public school is Elverado Intermediate School, roughly 0.0 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, Elverado Junior High School comes 1st of 7 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 32.5%.

The campus sits in a rural setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 24%: 91 students in 2018 compared to 69 in 2025. The White share of enrollment decreased from 92% to 87% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 12.1:1 in 2018 to 9.4:1 today.

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