Salem Community High School

As a cozy secondary school in Salem, Illinois, Salem Community High School works with 706 students from grades 9 through 12, operated by Salem CHSD 600.

Salem CHSD 600 is the operating authority for Salem Community High School, handling staffing, calendars, and reporting to the state department of education.

Demographically, Salem Community High School shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (94%). Other groups include 3% multiracial.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.9:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.8:1 average. Around 45% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Marion County runs at roughly 64%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Salem Community High School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 45.7% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 38.5%.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Marion County indicate the typical household earns roughly $61,240 per year, roughly 17% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. Salem Community High School is one of 27 public schools in Marion County (combined enrollment of about 5,636 students).

Franklin Park Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around Salem Community High School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Salem Community High School at 5th of 9; the average score across the group is 38.6%.

The school occupies a town-based site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count expanded 3%: 686 students in 2018 compared to 706 in 2025.

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