Illinois Youth Center-Warrenville

Illinois Youth Center-Warrenville operates as an one-room-style secondary school in Naperville, Illinois, overseen by IDJJ Sch Dist 428. Current enrollment sits at 34 students spanning grades 8 through 12. By comparison, Illinois's public schools average about 834 students each, so Illinois Youth Center-Warrenville sits 96% below that benchmark.

IDJJ Sch Dist 428 comprises 5 schools with combined enrollment of 157 students; Illinois Youth Center-Warrenville is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Illinois Youth Center-Warrenville lists that Black students make up the majority at 59%. The remainder breaks down as 26% White, 12% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 5% Black, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Black than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Illinois Youth Center-Warrenville lists 9 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 3.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.8:1, putting Illinois Youth Center-Warrenville tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 79% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is higher than DuPage County's rate of about 34%.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for DuPage County put the typical household earns roughly $112,096 per year, 52% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. In all, DuPage County runs 277 public schools (combined enrollment of about 138,557 students), of which Illinois Youth Center-Warrenville is one.

Nearest neighbor: Clifford Johnson School, around 1.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Illinois Youth Center-Warrenville.

The school occupies a residential site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count rose 21%: 28 students in 2018 compared to 34 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share edged up from 39% to 59%.

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