Johnsburg Jr High School

As a small intermediate school in Johnsburg, Illinois, Johnsburg Jr High School instructs 373 students from grades 6 through 8, run under Johnsburg CUSD 12.

Johnsburg CUSD 12 runs 4 schools in total, collectively educating 1,681 students. Johnsburg Jr High School is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Johnsburg Jr High School logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (81%). Beyond that, the school shows 12% Hispanic, 3% multiracial, 3% Black. Compared to McHenry County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.8:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.0:1 average. Around 31% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

After controlling for student poverty, Johnsburg Jr High School is in the bottom 10% of Illinois public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 53.4%; Johnsburg Jr High School posts 31.9%, -21.5 points below that line.

Around the school, ACS estimates for McHenry County put the typical household earns roughly $104,802 per year, 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Across McHenry County's 89 public schools (combined enrollment of about 50,123 students), Johnsburg Jr High School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Johnsburg Elementary School, roughly 0.0 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Johnsburg Jr High School ranks 8th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 45.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Johnsburg Jr High School has decreased 21%, going from 474 students in 2018 to 373 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share shrank from 90% to 81%. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 13.3:1 in 2018 to 14.8:1 today.

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