Ridgeview High School

Ridgeview High School, located in Colfax, Illinois, is a very small high school. The school serves grades 9 through 12. Enrollment is 166 students. That is 80% below the average of about 834 students for high schools in Illinois.

The 3 schools in Ridgeview CUSD 19 enroll 520 students altogether, Ridgeview High School among them.

Ridgeview High School is 87% White by enrollment. The rest of enrollment is 8% multiracial and 4% Hispanic. Census estimates put the White share of McLean County's population at about 78%. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Ridgeview High School scores 23%.

Ridgeview High School reported 18 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25, a ratio of 9.2:1. By comparison, the average for high schools in Illinois is 13.8:1.

McLean County is the school's county. There, median household income comes to about $79,905, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 47%, and about 7% of people live in poverty. McLean County's 60 public schools enroll about 23,759 students and include Ridgeview High School.

Less than a tenth of a mile separates Ridgeview High School from the closest public school, Ridgeview Jr High School. A five-mile radius around the school includes 2 other public schools.

By NCES locale, the school is Rural: Distant, or in rural territory some distance from an urban area.

In 2024-25, the school enrolled 166, down from 179 in 2020-21.

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