Triad Middle School

Triad Middle School operates as a well-populated middle school in Saint Jacob, Illinois, run under Triad CUSD 2. Current enrollment sits at 925 students spanning grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 100% above the state mean of about 462.

Triad CUSD 2 comprises 6 schools with combined enrollment of 4,009 students; Triad Middle School is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Triad Middle School reports that 90% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school reports 4% Hispanic, 3% multiracial, 2% Black.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 57 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.0:1, putting Triad Middle School higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 17% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is below Madison County's rate of about 46%.

With demographic context factored in, Triad Middle School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 61.8%; this one delivers 61.1%.

In the broader community, census data for Madison County shows median household earnings sit near $75,793, 31% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Across Madison County's 84 public schools (combined enrollment of about 35,253 students), Triad Middle School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Triad High School, around 2.0 miles off. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Triad Middle School at 4th of 9; the average score across the group is 59.0%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Triad Middle School has grew 9%, going from 851 students in 2018 to 925 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 94% to 90% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 17.5:1 in 2018 to 16.4:1 today.

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