Lincolnwood Jr High School

Lincolnwood Jr High School, a rural-scale middle-grades school in Raymond, Illinois, run under Panhandle CUSD 2, teaches 90 students, covering grades 6 through 8. That puts it 81% smaller than the typical public school in Illinois, which averages around 462 students.

Panhandle CUSD 2 runs 4 schools in total, collectively educating 437 students. Lincolnwood Jr High School is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Lincolnwood Jr High School records that 92% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 7% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, Lincolnwood Jr High School lists 9 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.6:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.0:1 average. About 40% 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 Montgomery County (around 50%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Lincolnwood Jr High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 48.4%, the actual is 37.8%, a residual of -10.6 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Montgomery County indicate the typical household earns roughly $63,620 per year, about 18% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Lincolnwood Jr High School is one of 19 public schools in Montgomery County (combined enrollment of about 3,835 students).

The closest other public school is Lincolnwood High School, roughly 0.0 miles away. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Lincolnwood Jr High School at 5th of 8; the average score across the group is 40.5%.

Lincolnwood Jr High School operates from an outlying location.

Over the past 7-year window. Lincolnwood Jr High School's enrollment has shrank 11% since 2018, when it stood at 101 (now 90). The Hispanic share of enrollment increased from 2% to 7% over that span.

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