Evans Junior High School

Evans Junior High School is one of the substantial junior highs in Bloomington, Illinois, overseen by McLean County USD 5, with 778 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8. That puts it 68% above the typical public school in Illinois, which averages around 462 students.

McLean County USD 5 comprises 24 schools with combined enrollment of 12,407 students; Evans Junior High School is among them.

On the student-mix side, Evans Junior High School logs that the most-represented group is White (50%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder breaks down as 19% Asian, 16% Hispanic, 9% Black, 7% multiracial. By comparison, McLean County as a whole is about 78% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 55 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.1:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.0:1, putting Evans Junior High School higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 30% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against McLean County (around 40%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Evans Junior High School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 54.0% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 52.9%.

In the broader community, census data for McLean County shows the typical household earns roughly $79,905 per year, about 47% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Evans Junior High School is one of 60 public schools in McLean County (combined enrollment of about 23,759 students).

Cedar Ridge Elem School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 2.7 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Evans Junior High School comes 3rd of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 38.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count showed little movement: 795 students in 2018 compared to 778 in 2025. The White share of enrollment edged down from 63% to 50% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 15.6:1 in 2018 to 14.1:1 today.

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