Pecatonica High School

Pecatonica High School is a very small senior high in Pecatonica, Illinois, one of the schools within Pecatonica CUSD 321. The school hosts 313 students in grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 62% below the state mean of about 834.

Across the 3 schools in Pecatonica CUSD 321 (889 students total), Pecatonica High School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Pecatonica High School logs that nearly all students (89%) are White. Other groups include 5% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Winnebago County as a whole is about 66% White, so the school skews considerably more White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school employs 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.6:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 31% of students at Pecatonica High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Winnebago County (around 61%), the school's rate is south of typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Pecatonica High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 53.8%, the actual is 55.1%, a residual of +1.3 points.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Winnebago County) records that the typical household earns roughly $65,837 per year, about 25% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Pecatonica High School is one of 94 public schools in Winnebago County (combined enrollment of about 44,103 students).

The closest other public school is Pecatonica Comm Middle School, roughly 0.3 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Pecatonica High School. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Pecatonica High School ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 45.0%.

Pecatonica High School operates from a countryside location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Pecatonica High School has increased 22%, going from 256 students in 2018 to 313 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 12.3:1 in 2018 to 13.6:1 today.

Within the allk12 community for this school, the feed for Pecatonica High School typically covers pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.