Reservoir Gifted School

Reservoir Gifted School operates as a modestly sized junior high in Peoria, Illinois, run under Peoria SD 150. Current enrollment sits at 308 students spanning grades 5 through 8. That puts it 33% leaner than the typical public school in Illinois, which averages around 462 students.

Peoria SD 150 comprises 25 schools with combined enrollment of 13,312 students; Reservoir Gifted School is among them.

On demographics, Reservoir Gifted School lists that the most-represented group is White (54%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest is composed of 17% Black, 15% multiracial, 12% Hispanic, 3% Asian. That is considerably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 67%.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.9:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 13.0:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 35% of students at Reservoir Gifted School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Peoria County (around 57%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Reservoir Gifted School sits in the top 10% of Illinois schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 51.3%; actual is 91.9%, +40.6 points clear of the demographic baseline.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Peoria County put median household income runs about $65,108, 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Reservoir Gifted School is one of 81 public schools in Peoria County (combined enrollment of about 27,827 students).

Von Steuben Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Reservoir Gifted School. On composite proficiency, Reservoir Gifted School comes 1st of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 16.6%.

The campus sits in a city-core setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count increased 3%: 299 students in 2018 compared to 308 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 62% to 54% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 20.9:1 in 2018 to 18.9:1 today.

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