Harrisburg Middle School

Located at 312 Bulldog Blvd, in Harrisburg, Illinois, Harrisburg Middle School is a tight-knit 6-8 campus that educates 382 students (grades 6 through 8), one of the schools within Harrisburg CUSD 3.

Harrisburg Middle School is one of 5 schools operated by Harrisburg CUSD 3, a district that hosts 1,781 students overall.

Looking at the student body, Harrisburg Middle School lists that the student body is overwhelmingly White (83%). The remainder comes out to 8% multiracial, 5% Black, 4% Hispanic. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 92%.

On the income-and-resources front, The school reports having 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.9:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.0:1 average. Roughly 66% of students at Harrisburg Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Harrisburg Middle School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 33.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 42.4%.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Saline County indicate the typical household earns roughly $53,117 per year, 20% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 14%. In all, Saline County runs 15 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,704 students), of which Harrisburg Middle School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Bulldog Early Learning Academy, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 7 other public schools cluster around Harrisburg Middle School. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Harrisburg Middle School ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 31.2%.

The school occupies a rural site.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Harrisburg Middle School has fell 15%, going from 451 students in 2018 to 382 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 18.0:1 in 2018 to 11.9:1 today.

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