Seneca High School

As a modestly sized secondary school in Seneca, Illinois, Seneca High School hosts 378 students from grades 9 through 12, one of the schools within Seneca Twp HSD 160. By comparison, Illinois's public schools average about 834 students each, so Seneca High School sits 55% smaller than that benchmark.

Operationally, Seneca High School answers to Seneca Twp HSD 160, which sets policy, hires staff, and reports enrollment to the state.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Seneca High School records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (85%). The remainder breaks down as 12% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 9.9:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.8:1, putting Seneca High School tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 31% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against LaSalle County (around 53%), the school's rate is south of typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Seneca High School is in the bottom 10% of Illinois public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 53.3%; Seneca High School posts 38.5%, -14.8 points below that line.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (LaSalle County) reports that median household earnings sit near $73,045, roughly 21% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Seneca High School is one of 54 public schools in LaSalle County (combined enrollment of about 14,523 students).

Seneca Elem School South Campus is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around Seneca High School. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Seneca High School ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 45.7%.

The campus sits in a rural setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Seneca High School's enrollment has edged down 17% since 2018, when it stood at 456 (now 378). White enrollment moved from 91% to 85% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 12.5:1 in 2018 to 9.9:1 today.

Within the allk12 community for this school, posts here usually surface around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.