Shawnee Jr High School

Shawnee Jr High School is a junior high of tiny scale in Wolf Lake, Illinois, operated by Shawnee CUSD 84, instructing 62 students in grades 6 through 8. That puts it 87% smaller than the typical public school in Illinois, which averages around 462 students.

Shawnee CUSD 84 comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 270 students; Shawnee Jr High School is among them.

In terms of who attends, Shawnee Jr High School lists that nearly all students (90%) are White. Beyond that, the school lists 5% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, Shawnee Jr High School records 5 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.4:1. The state averages about 13.0:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 81% of students at Shawnee Jr High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Union County (around 63%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

With demographic context factored in, Shawnee Jr High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 24.9%, the actual is 24.6%, a residual of -0.4 points.

In the broader community, Union County reports that median household income runs about $55,728, roughly 21% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. In all, Union County runs 18 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,478 students), of which Shawnee Jr High School is one.

Shawnee High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Shawnee Jr High School ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 38.7%.

Shawnee Jr High School operates from a small-town location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 16%: 74 students in 2018 compared to 62 in 2025.

On the community side, members of the Shawnee Jr High School community share and discuss pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.