Olympia Middle School

As a small middle school in Stanford, Illinois, Olympia Middle School enrolls 380 students from grades 6 through 8, overseen by Olympia CUSD 16.

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

On the student-mix side, Olympia Middle School records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (91%). Beyond that, the school logs 4% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. That is visibly more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 78%.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.1:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 44% of students at Olympia Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Olympia Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 45.8%, the actual is 49.8%, a residual of +4.0 points.

In the surrounding community, McLean County reports that the typical household earns roughly $79,905 per year, 47% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across McLean County's 60 public schools (combined enrollment of about 23,759 students), Olympia Middle School is one campus in the mix.

Olympia High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Olympia Middle School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Olympia Middle School at 4th of 9; the average score across the group is 45.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Olympia Middle School has fell 3%, going from 391 students in 2018 to 380 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 16.3:1 in 2018 to 13.1:1 today.

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