Tri-City Jr High School

Tri-City Jr High School is one of the micro-enrollment middle schools in Buffalo, Illinois, one of the schools within Tri City CUSD 1, with 137 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 462 students per school, that is 70% smaller than typical.

Within Tri City CUSD 1, which oversees 3 schools and 564 students, Tri-City Jr High School is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Tri-City Jr High School logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (91%). Other groups include 4% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. That is noticeably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 78%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 12 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.3:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.0:1 average. Around 49% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Tri-City Jr High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 43.3%, the actual is 50.6%, a residual of +7.3 points.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Sangamon County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $75,357 per year, 37% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Tri-City Jr High School is one of 77 public schools in Sangamon County (combined enrollment of about 27,345 students).

Tri-City 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 Tri-City Jr High School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Tri-City Jr High School at 3rd of 9; the average score across the group is 41.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Tri-City Jr High School has rose 16%, going from 118 students in 2018 to 137 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 13.1:1 in 2018 to 11.3:1 today.

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