Oswego East High School

Set in Oswego, Illinois, Oswego East High School is a sizable secondary school, operated by CUSD 308. It instructs 2,758 students across grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 231% bigger than the state mean of about 834.

CUSD 308 comprises 21 schools with combined enrollment of 16,766 students; Oswego East High School is among them.

Looking at the student body, Oswego East High School records that the most-represented group is White (49%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school lists 21% Hispanic, 13% Asian, 12% Black, 5% multiracial. By comparison, Kendall County as a whole is about 65% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Oswego East High School records 176 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.6:1. The state averages around 13.8:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 24% of students at Oswego East High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is south of Kendall County's rate of about 32%.

After controlling for student poverty, Oswego East High School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 57.5%; this one delivers 51.4%.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Kendall County indicate median household earnings sit near $111,601, about 37% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Across Kendall County's 50 public schools (combined enrollment of about 29,773 students), Oswego East High School is one campus in the mix.

Brokaw Early Learning Center is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Oswego East High School ranks 7th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 58.2%.

Oswego East High School operates from a commuter-belt location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Oswego East High School's enrollment has edged up 5% since 2018, when it stood at 2,616 (now 2,758). Over the same period, the White share decreased from 55% to 49%.

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