Havana High School

As a micro-enrollment senior high in Havana, Illinois, Havana High School enrolls 249 students from grades 9 through 12, one of the schools within Havana CUSD 126. By comparison, Illinois's public schools average about 834 students each, so Havana High School sits 70% leaner than that benchmark.

Across the 3 schools in Havana CUSD 126 (819 students total), Havana High School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, Havana High School shows that 95% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest breaks down as 2% multiracial, 2% Native American. That composition is broadly in line with Mason County as a whole.

On the resource side, Havana High School lists 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.8:1 average. An estimated 47% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Havana High School sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 44.4%; actual is 26.9%, a gap of -17.5 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Mason County indicate median household income runs about $62,845, roughly 17% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Across Mason County's 9 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,124 students), Havana High School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Havana Jr High School, roughly 0.2 miles away. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Havana High School comes 8th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 34.4%.

The school occupies a countryside site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 10%: 276 students in 2018 compared to 249 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 13.8:1 in 2018 to 11.4:1 today.

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