Mount Pulaski High School

Mount Pulaski High School is one of the rural-scale 9-12 campuss in Mount Pulaski, Illinois, one of the schools within Mt Pulaski CUSD 23, with 178 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. That puts it 79% leaner than the typical public school in Illinois, which averages around 834 students.

Mount Pulaski High School is one of 2 schools operated by Mt Pulaski CUSD 23, a district that caters to 547 students overall.

Looking at the student body, Mount Pulaski High School records that 96% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 2% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 87% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully more White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 9.6:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.8:1 average. An estimated 42% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is below Logan County's rate of about 51%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Mount Pulaski High School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 47.5%; this one delivers 35.5%.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Logan County put median household earnings sit near $66,358, about 21% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. In all, Logan County runs 15 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,448 students), of which Mount Pulaski High School is one.

The closest other public school is Mount Pulaski Elem School, roughly 0.4 miles away. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, Mount Pulaski High School comes 8th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 48.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.

Five-year trend. Mount Pulaski High School's enrollment has grew 13% since 2018, when it stood at 158 (now 178). The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 7.9:1 in 2018 to 9.6:1 today.

On the community side, the feed for Mount Pulaski High School typically covers pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.