Parkview Jr High School

As a close-knit middle-grades school in Lawrenceville, Illinois, Parkview Jr High School educates 235 students from grades 6 through 8, one of the schools within Lawrence County CUD 20. By comparison, Illinois's public schools average about 462 students each, so Parkview Jr High School sits 49% leaner than that benchmark.

Lawrence County CUD 20 runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 1,061 students. Parkview Jr High School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Parkview Jr High School shows that 89% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest comes out to 5% Hispanic, 3% Black, 3% multiracial.

In terms of school funding signals, The school employs 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.2:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.0:1, putting Parkview Jr High School tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 66% of students at Parkview Jr High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Parkview Jr High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 33.7%, the actual is 32.5%, a residual of -1.2 points.

In the area at large, census data for Lawrence County shows the typical household earns roughly $55,324 per year, about 15% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Lawrence County's 6 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,964 students), Parkview Jr High School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Parkside Elementary School, around 0.2 miles off. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Parkview Jr High School at 7th of 9; the average score across the group is 35.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a town-based area.

Over the past 7-year window. Parkview Jr High School's enrollment has ticked down 7% since 2018, when it stood at 254 (now 235). The White share of enrollment edged down from 96% to 89% over that span. Class-load math has loosened: from 10.4:1 in 2018 to 12.2:1 in 2025.

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