Paxton-Buckley-Loda High School

Paxton-Buckley-Loda High School is one of the modestly sized secondary schools in Paxton, Illinois, run under Paxton-Buckley-Loda CUD 10, with 378 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 55% smaller than the state mean of about 834.

Paxton-Buckley-Loda CUD 10 comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 1,230 students; Paxton-Buckley-Loda High School is among them.

In terms of who attends, Paxton-Buckley-Loda High School lists that 86% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest is composed of 9% Hispanic, 5% multiracial.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.2:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 13.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 44% of students at Paxton-Buckley-Loda High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Paxton-Buckley-Loda High School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 45.9% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 47.8%.

In the broader community, Ford County reports that median household income runs about $62,439, 19% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Ford County runs 9 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,450 students), of which Paxton-Buckley-Loda High School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Paxton-Buckley-Loda Jr High Sch, around 0.1 miles off. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Paxton-Buckley-Loda High School comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 22.3%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 21%: 481 students in 2018 compared to 378 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 91% to 86% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 14.0:1 in 2018 to 11.2:1 in 2025.

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