Forreston Jr/Sr High Sch

Forreston Jr/Sr High Sch is a high school of cozy scale in Forreston, Illinois, overseen by Forrestville Valley CUSD 221, educateing 406 students in grades 6 through 12. That puts it 51% smaller than the typical public school in Illinois, which averages around 834 students.

Forrestville Valley CUSD 221 comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 714 students; Forreston Jr/Sr High Sch is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Forreston Jr/Sr High Sch reports that the student body is overwhelmingly White (84%). Other groups include 8% Hispanic, 6% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Forreston Jr/Sr High Sch has 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.3:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.8:1 average. Roughly 41% of students at Forreston Jr/Sr High Sch qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, Forreston Jr/Sr High Sch performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 47.9%, the actual is 47.3%, a residual of -0.7 points.

Around the school, census data for Ogle County shows median household income runs about $82,132, about 24% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Forreston Jr/Sr High Sch is one of 26 public schools in Ogle County (combined enrollment of about 8,269 students).

Nearest neighbor: Forreston Grade School, around 0.4 miles off. Within ten miles, there are 6 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. On composite proficiency, Forreston Jr/Sr High Sch comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 48.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Forreston Jr/Sr High Sch's enrollment has edged down 8% since 2018, when it stood at 440 (now 406). Over the same period, the White share contracted from 91% to 84%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 17.5:1 in 2018 to 15.3:1 today.

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