Griggsville-Perry High School

Griggsville-Perry High School operates as a tiny senior high in Griggsville, Illinois, operated by Griggsville-Perry CUSD 4. Current enrollment sits at 89 students spanning grades 9 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 834 students per school, that is 89% leaner than typical.

Across the 3 schools in Griggsville-Perry CUSD 4 (329 students total), Griggsville-Perry High School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Griggsville-Perry High School records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (96%). The remainder is composed of 2% Black. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 8 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.8:1, putting Griggsville-Perry High School tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 43% of students at Griggsville-Perry High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Pike County (around 55%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Griggsville-Perry High School falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 46.9%; this one comes in at 18.4%, -28.5 points off the demographic line.

In the area at large, census data for Pike County shows median household income runs about $59,777, about 19% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Griggsville-Perry High School is one of 12 public schools in Pike County (combined enrollment of about 2,394 students).

Griggsville-Perry Primary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Griggsville-Perry High School ranks 8th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 38.9%.

Griggsville-Perry High School operates from an outlying location.

Looking at the recent track record. Griggsville-Perry High School's enrollment has contracted 12% since 2018, when it stood at 101 (now 89). Class-load math has rose: from 8.4:1 in 2018 to 10.8:1 in 2025.

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