Olympia High School

Olympia High School is a 9-12 campus of close-knit scale in Stanford, Illinois, one of the schools within Olympia CUSD 16, enrolling 495 students in grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Illinois's public schools average about 834 students each, so Olympia High School sits 41% leaner than that benchmark.

Within Olympia CUSD 16, which oversees 5 schools and 1,740 students, Olympia High School is one campus in the system.

Demographically, Olympia High School records that 91% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school logs 3% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 78% White, putting the school's mix noticeably more White than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Olympia High School has 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.4:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 35% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Olympia High School sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 51.5%; actual is 36.5%, a gap of -14.9 points.

Across the wider county, census data for McLean County shows the typical household earns roughly $79,905 per year, about 47% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across McLean County's 60 public schools (combined enrollment of about 23,759 students), Olympia High School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Olympia Middle School, roughly 0.1 miles away. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Olympia High School ranks 8th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 47.2%.

The school occupies a low-density site.

Over the past 7-year window. Olympia High School's enrollment has ticked down 9% since 2018, when it stood at 541 (now 495).

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