Peoria Heights High School

Peoria Heights High School is one of the tiny high schools in Peoria Heights, Illinois, one of the schools within Peoria Heights CUSD 325, with 215 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. That puts it 74% smaller than the typical public school in Illinois, which averages around 834 students.

Peoria Heights CUSD 325 comprises 2 schools with combined enrollment of 703 students; Peoria Heights High School is among them.

In terms of who attends, Peoria Heights High School records that the largest single group is White at 53%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder comes out to 25% Black, 12% multiracial, 7% Hispanic. By comparison, Peoria County as a whole is about 67% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Peoria Heights High School has 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 10.8:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.8:1 average. About 67% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is above Peoria County's rate of about 57%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), On a poverty-adjusted basis, Peoria Heights High School sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 33.1%; actual is 19.0%, a gap of -14.1 points.

In the surrounding community, Peoria County reports that median household earnings sit near $65,108, about 35% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Peoria County's 81 public schools (combined enrollment of about 27,827 students), Peoria Heights High School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Peoria Heights Grade School, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Peoria Heights High School. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Peoria Heights High School ranks 8th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 37.1%.

The school occupies a residential site.

Five-year trend. Peoria Heights High School's enrollment has climbed 4% since 2018, when it stood at 206 (now 215). Over the same period, the White share declined from 73% to 53%.

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