Mulberry Grove Sr High School

Mulberry Grove Sr High School is one of the minimally staffed senior highs in Mulberry Grove, Illinois, part of Mulberry Grove CUSD 1, with 108 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 87% below the state mean of about 834.

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

On demographics, Mulberry Grove Sr High School records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (94%); the rest looks like 5% Black.

In terms of school funding signals, The school employs 8 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.5:1. The state averages about 13.8:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 47% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, Mulberry Grove Sr High School is in the bottom 10% of Illinois public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 44.3%; Mulberry Grove Sr High School posts 26.4%, -17.9 points below that line.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Bond County) shows that median household earnings sit near $65,959, about 22% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Across Bond County's 8 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,852 students), Mulberry Grove Sr High School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Mulberry Grove Jr High School, roughly 0.0 miles away. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Mulberry Grove Sr High School comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 40.1%.

Mulberry Grove Sr High School operates from a countryside location.

Five-year trend. Mulberry Grove Sr High School's enrollment has remained close to its prior level since 2018, when it stood at 108 (now 108). Over the same period, the White share ticked up from 89% to 94%. Class-load math has rose: from 12.0:1 in 2018 to 13.5:1 in 2025.

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