Paw Paw Junior High School

Paw Paw Junior High School operates as a micro-enrollment junior high in Paw Paw, Illinois, run under Paw Paw CUSD 271. Current enrollment sits at 42 students spanning grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 91% below the state mean of about 462.

Paw Paw CUSD 271 comprises 2 schools with combined enrollment of 129 students; Paw Paw Junior High School is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Paw Paw Junior High School records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (83%). Beyond that, the school lists 14% Hispanic, 2% Black. Compared to Lee County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 6 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 7.3:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.0:1 average. Roughly 52% of students at Paw Paw Junior High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Paw Paw Junior High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 41.3%, the actual is 39.6%, a residual of -1.6 points.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Lee County put median household income runs about $70,292, 19% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across Lee County's 19 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,778 students), Paw Paw Junior High School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Paw Paw Elem School, around 0.0 miles off. Within ten miles, there are 6 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Paw Paw Junior High School at 6th of 8; the average score across the group is 43.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.

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