Mulberry Grove Jr High School

Set in Mulberry Grove, Illinois, Mulberry Grove Jr High School is a minimally staffed middle-grades school, run under Mulberry Grove CUSD 1. It works with 59 students across grades 6 through 8. That puts it 87% below the typical public school in Illinois, which averages around 462 students.

Across the 3 schools in Mulberry Grove CUSD 1 (302 students total), Mulberry Grove Jr High School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Mulberry Grove Jr High School records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (85%). Beyond that, the school shows 8% multiracial, 3% Hispanic, 3% Black. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, Mulberry Grove Jr High School lists 7 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 8.0:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.0:1 average. Roughly 56% of students at Mulberry Grove Jr High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

After controlling for student poverty, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Mulberry Grove Jr High School sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 39.2%; actual is 25.2%, a gap of -14.0 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Bond County indicate median household earnings sit near $65,959, roughly 22% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Mulberry Grove Jr High School is one of 8 public schools in Bond County (combined enrollment of about 1,852 students).

Mulberry Grove Sr High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Mulberry Grove Jr High School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Mulberry Grove Jr High School at 8th of 8; the average score across the group is 40.2%.

The school occupies a countryside site.

Five-year trend. Mulberry Grove Jr High School's enrollment has decreased 39% since 2018, when it stood at 96 (now 59). White enrollment moved from 93% to 85% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 13.7:1 in 2018 to 8.0:1 in 2025.

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