Joppa Jr & Sr High School

Joppa Jr & Sr High School is a secondary school of rural-scale scale in Joppa, Illinois, run under Joppa-Maple Grove UD 38, hosting 78 students in grades 7 through 12. By comparison, Illinois's public schools average about 834 students each, so Joppa Jr & Sr High School sits 91% smaller than that benchmark.

Across the 2 schools in Joppa-Maple Grove UD 38 (200 students total), Joppa Jr & Sr High School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, Joppa Jr & Sr High School records that 94% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest comes out to 4% Black.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 10 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 8.1:1. The state averages around 13.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 62% of students at Joppa Jr & Sr High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Joppa Jr & Sr High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 36.0%, the actual is 24.7%, a residual of -11.3 points.

In the broader community, census data for Massac County shows the typical household earns roughly $65,116 per year, about 17% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Joppa Jr & Sr High School is one of 10 public schools in Massac County (combined enrollment of about 2,026 students).

The closest other public school is Maple Grove Elem School, roughly 0.0 miles away. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Joppa Jr & Sr High School comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 58.3%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Over the past 7-year window. Joppa Jr & Sr High School's enrollment has fell 29% since 2018, when it stood at 110 (now 78). The White share of enrollment increased from 86% to 94% over that span. Class-load math has fell: from 11.3:1 in 2018 to 8.1:1 in 2025.

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