Pearl City Jr High School

Pearl City Jr High School is one of the micro-enrollment middle schools in Pearl City, Illinois, one of the schools within Pearl City CUSD 200, with 58 students on its rolls from grades 7 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 87% below the state mean of about 462.

Across the 3 schools in Pearl City CUSD 200 (418 students total), Pearl City Jr High School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, Pearl City Jr High School reports that 86% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school lists 7% Hispanic, 7% multiracial.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Pearl City Jr High School has 6 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 10.1:1. The state averages around 13.0:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 40% of students at Pearl City Jr High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Stephenson County runs at roughly 50%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Pearl City Jr High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 48.6%, the actual is 39.1%, a residual of -9.5 points.

Around the school, census data for Stephenson County shows median household income runs about $64,043, 21% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Across Stephenson County's 23 public schools (combined enrollment of about 6,092 students), Pearl City Jr High School is one campus in the mix.

Pearl City Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Pearl City Jr High School at 6th of 9; the average score across the group is 42.0%.

The campus sits in a rural setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Pearl City Jr High School's enrollment has edged down 16% since 2018, when it stood at 69 (now 58). White enrollment moved from 94% to 86% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 11.1:1 in 2018 to 10.1:1 today.

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