Lemont Twp High School

Lemont Twp High School operates as a heavily attended four-year high school in Lemont, Illinois, part of Lemont Twp HSD 210. Current enrollment sits at 1,284 students spanning grades 9 through 12. That puts it 54% bigger than the typical public school in Illinois, which averages around 834 students.

Operationally, Lemont Twp High School answers to Lemont Twp HSD 210, which sets policy, hires staff, and reports enrollment to the state.

On demographics, Lemont Twp High School shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (80%); the rest comes out to 12% Hispanic, 4% Asian, 3% multiracial. That is visibly more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 44%.

Looking at school resources, Lemont Twp High School shows 85 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.0:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.8:1 average. About 17% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Cook County (around 66%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Lemont Twp High School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 61.7% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 65.0%.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Cook County shows median household earnings sit near $83,498, about 43% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Lemont Twp High School is one of 1406 public schools in Cook County (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students).

Central School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Lemont Twp High School comes 3rd of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 55.4%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Five-year trend. Lemont Twp High School's enrollment has contracted 9% since 2018, when it stood at 1,404 (now 1,284).

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