Fisher Jr/Sr High School

As a minimally staffed four-year high school in Fisher, Illinois, Fisher Jr/Sr High School teaches 284 students from grades 7 through 12, operated by Fisher CUSD 1. Compared to the state average of about 834 students per school, that is 66% below typical.

Fisher Jr/Sr High School is one of 2 schools operated by Fisher CUSD 1, a district that teaches 610 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Fisher Jr/Sr High School lists that the student body is overwhelmingly White (91%). Beyond that, the school logs 4% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Champaign County as a whole is about 64% White, so the school skews noticeably more White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Fisher Jr/Sr High School reports 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.7:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.8:1 average. An estimated 29% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is lower than Champaign County's rate of about 53%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Fisher Jr/Sr High School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 55.0%; this one delivers 43.9%.

In the broader community, Champaign County reports that median household income runs about $63,683, about 46% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. In all, Champaign County runs 66 public schools (combined enrollment of about 25,919 students), of which Fisher Jr/Sr High School is one.

Fisher Grade School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 6 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, Fisher Jr/Sr High School comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 45.3%.

The school occupies a low-density site.

Over the past 7-year window. Fisher Jr/Sr High School's enrollment has changed only slightly since 2018, when it stood at 287 (now 284).

Within the allk12 community for this school, recent activity here tends to focus on classroom updates, athletics, and weather closures. The community welcomes input from current and former families.