Lanphier High School

Set in Springfield, Illinois, Lanphier High School is an average-sized four-year high school, overseen by Springfield SD 186. It enrolls 1,117 students across grades 9 through 12. That puts it 34% bigger than the typical public school in Illinois, which averages around 834 students.

Lanphier High School is one of 31 schools operated by Springfield SD 186, a district that educates 13,014 students overall.

Looking at the student body, Lanphier High School shows that the most-represented group is Black (46%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school records 38% White, 14% multiracial, 2% Hispanic. By comparison, Sangamon County as a whole is about 13% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 78 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.3:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 74% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is north of Sangamon County's rate of about 48%.

With demographic context factored in, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Lanphier High School sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 28.7%; actual is 14.8%, a gap of -13.9 points.

Around the school, Sangamon County reports that the typical household earns roughly $75,357 per year, about 37% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Across Sangamon County's 77 public schools (combined enrollment of about 27,345 students), Lanphier High School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is McClernand Elem School, roughly 0.7 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Lanphier High School ranks 8th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 28.2%.

Lanphier High School operates from an urban location.

Five-year trend. Lanphier High School's enrollment has fell 7% since 2018, when it stood at 1,199 (now 1,117). Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 48% to 38%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 15.7:1 in 2018 to 14.3:1 today.

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