Mt Zion Jr High School

Mt Zion Jr High School, a compact junior high in Mount Zion, Illinois, one of the schools within Mt Zion CUSD 3, educates 378 students, covering grades 7 through 8.

Across the 5 schools in Mt Zion CUSD 3 (2,427 students total), Mt Zion Jr High School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Mt Zion Jr High School logs that 87% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder looks like 5% multiracial, 3% Hispanic, 2% Black. That is visibly more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 74%.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Mt Zion Jr High School has 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.3:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.0:1 average. Around 27% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Macon County (around 61%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Mt Zion Jr High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 56.1%, the actual is 49.6%, a residual of -6.4 points.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Macon County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $62,666 per year, roughly 24% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. In all, Macon County runs 43 public schools (combined enrollment of about 14,702 students), of which Mt Zion Jr High School is one.

Mt Zion High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 7 other public schools cluster around Mt Zion Jr High School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Mt Zion Jr High School at 3rd of 8; the average score across the group is 31.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count rose 6%: 357 students in 2018 compared to 378 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 93% to 87% across the same window.

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