LeRoy Junior High School

LeRoy Junior High School is a 6-8 campus of one-room-style scale in Le Roy, Illinois, one of the schools within LeRoy CUSD 2, enrolling 102 students in grades 7 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 462 students per school, that is 78% leaner than typical.

Within LeRoy CUSD 2, which oversees 3 schools and 739 students, LeRoy Junior High School is one campus in the system.

Demographically, LeRoy Junior High School lists that the student body is overwhelmingly White (95%). Beyond that, the school logs 4% multiracial. By comparison, McLean County as a whole is about 78% White, so the school skews visibly more White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, LeRoy Junior High School has 11 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 9.5:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.0:1, putting LeRoy Junior High School tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 23% of students at LeRoy Junior High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is lower than McLean County's rate of about 40%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, LeRoy Junior High School is in the bottom 10% of Illinois public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 58.5%; LeRoy Junior High School posts 44.0%, -14.4 points below that line.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for McLean County put median household income runs about $79,905, 47% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across McLean County's 60 public schools (combined enrollment of about 23,759 students), LeRoy Junior High School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: LeRoy High School, around 0.0 miles off. 2 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), LeRoy Junior High School ranks 7th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 55.6%.

The school occupies a low-density site.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at LeRoy Junior High School has fell 6%, going from 109 students in 2018 to 102 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 13.6:1 in 2018 to 9.5:1 in 2025.

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