Enrollment
212
Middle
DISTRICT 315 · STATE 462
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PONTIAC-W HOLLIDAY SD 105·NCES 173219003367
Pontiac Jr High School
400 Ashland Ave, Fairview Heights, IL 62208 · (618) 233-6004 · St. Clair County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL212 STUDENTS
C-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 23% of Illinois public middle schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Illinois public middle schools
Student : Teacher
14.7:1
14 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.7:1 · STATE 13.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
52%
111 students
DISTRICT 59% · STATE 56%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 58 | 27% |
| Grade 7 | 75 | 35% |
| Grade 8 | 79 | 37% |
Student demographics
68%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 70% · STATE 69% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within Pontiac-W Holliday SD 105. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
IAR + ISA 2024-25 . % Proficient (Levels 4-5)English Language Arts
49.3%
IL avg 51.0% . +1.4pp since 2023
Math
13.0%
IL avg 37.9% . -2.3pp since 2023
What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 49 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 13 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Illinois schools, those numbers are about 51 and 38. Reading and writing scores are up about 1 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 2 points.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 49.3% | 13.0% |
| 2023-24 | 47.9% | 15.3% |
% Proficient (Levels 4-5), all students and all tested grades.
Source: IAR + ISA. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
34.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
41.3%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-7.0pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 34% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 41% typical for Illinois schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Illinois's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Pontiac Jr High School
Pontiac Jr High School's state test result (34.3% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pontiac Jr High School this school | 212 | 52.4% | 34.3% |
| Emge Junior High School Belleville | 146 | 56.8% | 42.4% |
| Forest Park Middle School Forest Park | 186 | 53.8% | 44.3% |
| Grant Middle School Fairview Heights | 254 | 44.5% | 30.1% |
| Central Jr High School Belleville | 308 | 64.0% | 45.6% |
| Liberty Leadership Middle School Peoria | 350 | 64.3% | 28.3% |
Matched among Illinois middle schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Pontiac Jr High School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Illinois | In St. Clair County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 34.3% | #390 of 578 | #13 of 18 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 13.0% | #559 of 640 ▼ 92 | #16 of 19 ▼ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 49.3% | #419 of 640 ▼ 102 | #15 of 19 ▼ 5 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 212 | #548 of 691 | #16 of 20 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.7:1 | #430 of 558 | #11 of 17 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 68.3% | #59 of 560 | #2 of 17 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 52.4% | #272 of 581 | #10 of 18 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -7.0% | #309 of 440 | #9 of 12 |
Ranked against other public middle schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
212
-12 (-5%) vs 2020
+47% since 1990-91, when it was 144
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 212 | 14.4 | 14.7:1 | 52% (111) |
| 2023-24 | 218 | 15 | 14.5:1 | 54% (118) |
| 2022-23 | 206 | 14 | 14.7:1 | 50% (102) |
| 2020-21 | 224 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 228 | 17 | 13.4:1 | 47% (107) |
| 2015-16 | 217 | 16 | 13.6:1 | 40% (86) |
| 2010-11 | 226 | 18 | 12.6:1 | 35% (79) |
| 2000-01 | 125 | 9 | 13.9:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 144 | 8 | 18.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Pontiac Jr High School.
Since 2017-18: students down 7% (228 to 212); teachers down 15% (17 to 14.4).
About Pontiac Jr High School
Pontiac Jr High School runs as a low-enrollment middle-grades school in Fairview Heights, Illinois. It enrolls 212 students in 2024-25. The grades offered are 6 through 8. That is 54% below the average of about 462 students for middle schools in Illinois.
Across its 2 schools, Pontiac-W Holliday SD 105 enrolls 630 students. Pontiac Jr High School is one of those schools.
Black students account for 44% of enrollment at Pontiac Jr High School, more than any other group. Enrollment also includes 32% White, 9% Hispanic, 9% multiracial, and 6% Asian. Among people living in St. Clair County, the Black share is about 28%. The diversity index for Pontiac Jr High School is 68%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
Its ratio of 14.7:1 is based on 14.4 full-time-equivalent teachers. Middle schools in Illinois average 13.0:1, 1.7 fewer students per teacher than here. The share of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch is 52%. The figure for public schools in St. Clair County is close, at 54%.
Pontiac Jr High School holds a C- allk12 Grade, placing it above 23% of Illinois public middle schools.
When test results are adjusted for free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, Pontiac Jr High School is 7.0 points below its prediction. Actual: 34.3%. Predicted: 41.3%.
In St. Clair County, where the school is located, median household income comes to about $73,854, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 32%, and about 10% of people live in poverty. There are 96 public schools in the county, enrolling about 40,879, Pontiac Jr High School among them.
William Holliday Elementary School, about 0.2 miles away, is the closest public school. Other public schools within five miles number at least 8. Compared with its nearest neighbors, Pontiac Jr High School ranks 5th of 8 on average proficiency.
Pontiac Jr High School is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more, a location NCES labels Suburb: Large.
A 5% decline took enrollment from 224 in 2020-21 to 212 in 2024-25.
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St. Clair County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
253,694
Census ACS
Median income
$73,854
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
32%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
96
40,879 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Pontiac-W Holliday SD 105
- William Holliday Elementary SchoolElementary · 418 students
Other schools in Fairview Heights
- William Holliday Elementary SchoolElementary · 418 students
- Illini Elementary SchoolElementary · 315 students
- Grant Middle SchoolMiddle · 254 students
Other Pontiac Junior High schools
One other US public school is named Pontiac Junior High. Pontiac Jr High School is the 2nd largest of the 2.
- Pontiac Jr High SchoolPontiac, IL · 326 students
Nearby schools
- William Holliday Elementary School0.2 mi · 418
- Joseph Arthur Middle School1.2 mi · 299
- Dawn Elser Elementary School1.5 mi · 330
- Wolf Branch Elementary School2.1 mi · 482
- Grant Middle School2.1 mi · 254
- Wolf Branch Middle School2.4 mi · 341
Frequently asked questions
About Pontiac Jr High SchoolHow large is Pontiac Jr High School?
Pontiac Jr High School enrolls approximately 212 students in grades 06-08.
What age range does Pontiac Jr High School serve?
Pontiac Jr High School serves students from grade 06 through grade 08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Pontiac Jr High School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Pontiac Jr High School is approximately 14.7:1 (14 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at Pontiac Jr High School?
Student demographics at Pontiac Jr High School are roughly 32% White, 9% Hispanic, 44% Black, 6% Asian, 9% Two or more.
What district is Pontiac Jr High School in?
Pontiac Jr High School is part of Pontiac-W Holliday SD 105.
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