Gillespie High School

Gillespie High School is a very small secondary school in Gillespie, Illinois, one of the schools within Gillespie CUSD 7. The school educates 328 students in grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 61% below the state mean of about 834.

Gillespie CUSD 7 comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 1,095 students; Gillespie High School is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Gillespie High School reports that the student body is overwhelmingly White (95%). The remainder is composed of 2% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, Gillespie High School reports 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.1:1. The state averages about 13.8:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 57% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

With demographic context factored in, Gillespie High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 38.8%, the actual is 30.5%, a residual of -8.3 points.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Macoupin County put the typical household earns roughly $70,805 per year, about 20% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Gillespie High School is one of 28 public schools in Macoupin County (combined enrollment of about 7,221 students).

Gillespie Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Gillespie High School. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Gillespie High School ranks 9th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 46.6%.

Gillespie High School operates from a town-based location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Gillespie High School's enrollment has declined 13% since 2018, when it stood at 377 (now 328). Class-load math has pulled in: from 17.7:1 in 2018 to 13.1:1 in 2025.

Inside the community feed, the feed for Gillespie High School typically covers science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.