Tri-Point Jr High/Elementary

Tri-Point Jr High/Elementary is an one-room-style intermediate school in Piper City, Illinois, part of Tri Point CUSD 6-J. The school teaches 129 students in grades 4 through 8. That puts it 72% leaner than the typical public school in Illinois, which averages around 462 students.

Tri Point CUSD 6-J runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 343 students. Tri-Point Jr High/Elementary is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Tri-Point Jr High/Elementary reports that 82% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school records 9% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 2% Black. That is noticeably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 90%.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Tri-Point Jr High/Elementary has 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 9.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.0:1, putting Tri-Point Jr High/Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 96% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Ford County runs at roughly 48%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Tri-Point Jr High/Elementary ranks in the top 10% of Illinois public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 16.0%; Tri-Point Jr High/Elementary posts 49.8%, +33.8 points above that line.

In the surrounding community, Ford County reports that median household income runs about $62,439, 19% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Tri-Point Jr High/Elementary is one of 9 public schools in Ford County (combined enrollment of about 2,450 students).

Prairie Central Primary East is the nearest neighboring public school, about 5.5 miles from this campus. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, Tri-Point Jr High/Elementary comes 3rd of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 47.1%.

The school occupies an outlying site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 17%: 155 students in 2018 compared to 129 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 12.4:1 in 2018 to 9.9:1 today.

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