Salt Fork Junior High School

Salt Fork Junior High School is one of the cozy intermediate schools in Sidell, Illinois, one of the schools within Salt Fork CUSD 512, with 202 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Illinois's public schools average about 462 students each, so Salt Fork Junior High School sits 56% smaller than that benchmark.

Salt Fork Junior High School is one of 4 schools operated by Salt Fork CUSD 512, a district that enrolls 878 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Salt Fork Junior High School records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (91%). Other groups include 4% multiracial, 2% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 78% White, putting the school's mix considerably more White than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Salt Fork Junior High School has 12 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.0:1, putting Salt Fork Junior High School higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 55% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Vermilion County runs at roughly 71%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Salt Fork Junior High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 39.5%, the actual is 33.2%, a residual of -6.3 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Vermilion County indicate the typical household earns roughly $56,877 per year, roughly 19% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. Salt Fork Junior High School is one of 41 public schools in Vermilion County (combined enrollment of about 11,267 students).

Salt Fork South Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 7 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, Salt Fork Junior High School comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 37.2%.

The campus sits in a rural setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count climbed 9%: 185 students in 2018 compared to 202 in 2025.

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