Macomb Senior High School

Located at 1525 S Johnson St, in Macomb, Illinois, Macomb Senior High School is a low-enrollment four-year high school that hosts 660 students (grades 9 through 12), run under Macomb CUSD 185. That puts it 21% smaller than the typical public school in Illinois, which averages around 834 students.

Macomb Senior High School is one of 5 schools operated by Macomb CUSD 185, a district that educates 2,075 students overall.

Demographically, Macomb Senior High School lists that 73% of the student body identifies as White. Other groups include 13% Black, 7% multiracial, 4% Hispanic. By comparison, McDonough County as a whole is about 86% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Macomb Senior High School shows 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.0:1. The state averages around 13.8:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 50% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Macomb Senior High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 42.4%, the actual is 42.9%, a residual of +0.5 points.

Across the wider county, McDonough County reports that the typical household earns roughly $52,795 per year, 31% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Macomb Senior High School is one of 19 public schools in McDonough County (combined enrollment of about 3,250 students).

Macomb Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Macomb Senior High School at 3rd of 7; the average score across the group is 36.5%.

The school occupies a town-center site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Macomb Senior High School has expanded 11%, going from 592 students in 2018 to 660 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share fell from 80% to 73%. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 14.5:1 in 2018 to 17.0:1 today.

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