Erie High School

Set in Erie, Illinois, Erie High School is a rural-scale four-year high school, run under Erie CUSD 1. It hosts 190 students across grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 77% smaller than the state mean of about 834.

Erie CUSD 1 runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 603 students. Erie High School is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Erie High School records that nearly all students (88%) are White. Other groups include 6% multiracial, 5% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Erie High School has 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 8.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.8:1, putting Erie High School tighter than the state norm the norm. About 28% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Whiteside County runs at roughly 55%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Erie High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 55.4%, the actual is 43.8%, a residual of -11.6 points.

In the area at large, Whiteside County reports that median household earnings sit near $67,500, 21% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Across Whiteside County's 50 public schools (combined enrollment of about 8,445 students), Erie High School is one campus in the mix.

Erie Elem School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 2 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Erie High School comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 52.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a low-density area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Erie High School has edged down 5%, going from 199 students in 2018 to 190 in 2025. The White share of enrollment edged down from 94% to 88% over that span.

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