Paxton-Buckley-Loda Jr High Sch

Paxton-Buckley-Loda Jr High Sch, a close-knit middle school in Paxton, Illinois, one of the schools within Paxton-Buckley-Loda CUD 10, enrolls 288 students, covering grades 6 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 462 students per school, that is 38% leaner than typical.

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

On demographics, Paxton-Buckley-Loda Jr High Sch logs that the largest single group is White, at 79% of enrollment; the rest comes out to 13% Hispanic, 7% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 90% White, putting the school's mix visibly less White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Paxton-Buckley-Loda Jr High Sch reports 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.5:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.0:1 average. About 48% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, Paxton-Buckley-Loda Jr High Sch performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 43.6%, the actual is 48.6%, a residual of +4.9 points.

Around the school, Ford County reports that the typical household earns roughly $62,439 per year, about 19% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. In all, Ford County runs 9 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,450 students), of which Paxton-Buckley-Loda Jr High Sch is one.

The closest other public school is Paxton-Buckley-Loda High School, roughly 0.1 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Paxton-Buckley-Loda Jr High Sch. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Paxton-Buckley-Loda Jr High Sch at 1st of 8; the average score across the group is 22.2%.

Paxton-Buckley-Loda Jr High Sch operates from a small-town location.

Looking at the recent track record. Paxton-Buckley-Loda Jr High Sch's enrollment has decreased 7% since 2018, when it stood at 309 (now 288). Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 89% to 79%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 12.6:1 in 2018 to 11.5:1 in 2025.

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