Sullivan Middle School

Sullivan Middle School is a close-knit 6-8 campus in Sullivan, Illinois, run under Sullivan CUSD 300. The school works with 266 students in grades 6 through 8. That puts it 42% below the typical public school in Illinois, which averages around 462 students.

Within Sullivan CUSD 300, which oversees 3 schools and 1,148 students, Sullivan Middle School is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, Sullivan Middle School shows that 94% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder breaks down as 2% Hispanic. That composition is broadly in line with Moultrie County as a whole.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.4:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.0:1 average. Roughly 47% of students at Sullivan Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Sullivan Middle School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 44.2% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 45.0%.

In the broader community, Moultrie County reports that the typical household earns roughly $71,784 per year, about 19% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. In all, Moultrie County runs 6 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,628 students), of which Sullivan Middle School is one.

Sullivan High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Sullivan Middle School. On composite proficiency, Sullivan Middle School comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 39.5%.

Sullivan Middle School operates from a town-based location.

Over the past 7-year window. Sullivan Middle School's enrollment has edged up 6% since 2018, when it stood at 250 (now 266).

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