Patoka Sr High School

Patoka Sr High School is an one-room-style four-year high school in Patoka, Illinois, overseen by Patoka CUSD 100. The school hosts 61 students in grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Illinois's public schools average about 834 students each, so Patoka Sr High School sits 93% leaner than that benchmark.

Patoka Sr High School is one of 3 schools operated by Patoka CUSD 100, a district that educates 201 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Patoka Sr High School records that 95% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority.

On the income-and-resources front, The school reports having 7 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 8.6:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.8:1 average. Roughly 36% of students at Patoka Sr High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is below Marion County's rate of about 64%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Patoka Sr High School falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 50.7%; this one comes in at 21.7%, -29.0 points off the demographic line.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Marion County indicate median household income runs about $61,240, roughly 17% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Marion County runs 27 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,636 students), of which Patoka Sr High School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Patoka Jr High School, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Patoka Sr High School. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Patoka Sr High School ranks 6th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 27.7%.

Patoka Sr High School operates from an outlying location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count held roughly steady: 62 students in 2018 compared to 61 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share shrank from 100% to 95%.

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