Heyworth Jr-Sr High School

Located at 308 W Cleveland St, in Heyworth, Illinois, Heyworth Jr-Sr High School is a tight-knit senior high that works with 401 students (grades 7 through 12), one of the schools within Heyworth CUSD 4. By comparison, Illinois's public schools average about 834 students each, so Heyworth Jr-Sr High School sits 52% leaner than that benchmark.

Across the 2 schools in Heyworth CUSD 4 (873 students total), Heyworth Jr-Sr High School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Heyworth Jr-Sr High School shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (93%). The remainder breaks down as 3% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 78% White, putting the school's mix visibly more White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.5:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 13.8:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 23% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, McLean County runs at roughly 40%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Heyworth Jr-Sr High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 58.4%, the actual is 55.8%, a residual of -2.6 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for McLean County indicate the typical household earns roughly $79,905 per year, 47% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Heyworth Jr-Sr High School is one of 60 public schools in McLean County (combined enrollment of about 23,759 students).

The closest other public school is Heyworth Elem School, roughly 0.6 miles away. Within ten miles, there are 8 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. On composite proficiency, Heyworth Jr-Sr High School comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 52.9%.

Geographically, the school is in an outlying area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Heyworth Jr-Sr High School has rose 6%, going from 380 students in 2018 to 401 in 2025.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.