Morrison High School

Set in Morrison, Illinois, Morrison High School is a rural-scale four-year high school, overseen by Morrison CUSD 6. It hosts 294 students across grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Illinois's public schools average about 834 students each, so Morrison High School sits 65% smaller than that benchmark.

Morrison CUSD 6 runs 4 schools in total, collectively educating 973 students. Morrison High School is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Morrison High School records that 86% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest reads as 9% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Whiteside County as a whole.

In terms of school funding signals, Morrison High School logs 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.4:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 34% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Whiteside County runs at roughly 55%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Morrison High School falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 51.7%; this one comes in at 37.9%, -13.8 points off the demographic line.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Whiteside County indicate median household earnings sit near $67,500, about 21% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Morrison High School is one of 50 public schools in Whiteside County (combined enrollment of about 8,445 students).

Nearest neighbor: Southside School, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around Morrison High School. On composite proficiency, Morrison High School comes 6th of 7 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 42.4%.

Morrison High School operates from a low-density location.

Over the past 7-year window. Morrison High School's enrollment has grew 13% since 2018, when it stood at 260 (now 294). White enrollment moved from 93% to 86% across the same window. Class-load math has grew: from 11.1:1 in 2018 to 13.4:1 in 2025.

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