Peotone Jr High School

Peotone Jr High School operates as a modestly sized middle school in Peotone, Illinois, run under Peotone CUSD 207U. Current enrollment sits at 294 students spanning grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Illinois's public schools average about 462 students each, so Peotone Jr High School sits 36% smaller than that benchmark.

Within Peotone CUSD 207U, which oversees 5 schools and 1,280 students, Peotone Jr High School is one campus in the system.

Demographically, Peotone Jr High School shows that White students make up the majority at 77%; the rest comes out to 16% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 2% Black. By comparison, Will County as a whole is about 62% White, so the school skews meaningfully more White than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Peotone Jr High School reports 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.4:1. The state averages about 13.0:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 31% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Will County (around 44%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Peotone Jr High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 53.6%, the actual is 55.4%, a residual of +1.7 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Will County indicate median household earnings sit near $109,984, roughly 38% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Peotone Jr High School is one of 209 public schools in Will County (combined enrollment of about 113,008 students).

Nearest neighbor: Connor Shaw Center, around 0.2 miles off. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Peotone Jr High School ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 47.1%.

The school occupies a low-density site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 17%: 355 students in 2018 compared to 294 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 88% to 77%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 14.8:1 in 2018 to 13.4:1 in 2025.

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