Flora High School

Flora High School operates as a small four-year high school in Flora, Illinois, one of the schools within Flora CUSD 35. Current enrollment sits at 353 students spanning grades 9 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 834 students per school, that is 58% leaner than typical.

Flora CUSD 35 runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 1,320 students. Flora High School is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Flora High School records that 94% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder comes out to 3% Hispanic. That composition is broadly in line with Clay County as a whole.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.0:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.8:1, putting Flora High School tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 44% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

After controlling for student poverty, Flora High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 46.2%, the actual is 37.0%, a residual of -9.2 points.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Clay County) logs that median household income runs about $60,417, roughly 13% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Clay County's 8 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,130 students), Flora High School is one campus in the mix.

Flora Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Flora High School. On composite proficiency, Flora High School comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 38.2%.

The campus sits in a town-based setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count held roughly steady: 358 students in 2018 compared to 353 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 13.8:1 in 2018 to 12.0:1 today.

Within the allk12 community for this school, posts here usually surface around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.