Mt Carmel Junior High School

Located at 201 N Pear St, in Mount Carmel, Illinois, Mt Carmel Junior High School is a low-enrollment 6-8 campus that serves 199 students (grades 7 through 8), run under Wabash CUSD 348. Enrollment runs roughly 57% smaller than the state mean of about 462.

Within Wabash CUSD 348, which oversees 4 schools and 1,382 students, Mt Carmel Junior High School is one campus in the system.

Demographically, Mt Carmel Junior High School shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (92%); the rest breaks down as 3% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 6.0:1. The state averages around 13.0:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 57% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

With demographic context factored in, Mt Carmel Junior High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 38.7%, the actual is 31.7%, a residual of -7.0 points.

In the broader community, census data for Wabash County shows median household earnings sit near $57,086, about 19% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Wabash County runs 5 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,513 students), of which Mt Carmel Junior High School is one.

Mount Carmel High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Mt Carmel Junior High School comes 5th of 6 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 36.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a town-center area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Mt Carmel Junior High School's enrollment has contracted 9% since 2018, when it stood at 218 (now 199). White enrollment moved from 97% to 92% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 15.7:1 in 2018 to 6.0:1 in 2025.

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