Hoopeston Area High School

Hoopeston Area High School, a micro-enrollment 9-12 campus in Hoopeston, Illinois, one of the schools within Hoopeston Area CUSD 11, enrolls 307 students, covering grades 9 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 834 students per school, that is 63% below typical.

Within Hoopeston Area CUSD 11, which oversees 4 schools and 1,064 students, Hoopeston Area High School is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Hoopeston Area High School shows that the largest single group is White, at 72% of enrollment. The remainder consists of 22% Hispanic, 4% Black.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school reports having 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.7:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.8:1 average. An estimated 57% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Vermilion County (around 71%), the school's rate is south of typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Hoopeston Area High School is in the bottom 10% of Illinois public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 38.4%; Hoopeston Area High School posts 21.7%, -16.7 points below that line.

Across the wider county, census data for Vermilion County shows the typical household earns roughly $56,877 per year, roughly 19% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 13% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Hoopeston Area High School is one of 41 public schools in Vermilion County (combined enrollment of about 11,267 students).

Hoopeston Area Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around Hoopeston Area High School. On composite proficiency, Hoopeston Area High School comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 33.2%.

Hoopeston Area High School operates from a town-center location.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 16%: 365 students in 2018 compared to 307 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share fell from 83% to 72%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 13.9:1 in 2018 to 10.7:1 today.

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