Trico Jr High School

Trico Jr High School is a middle school of micro-enrollment scale in Campbell Hill, Illinois, one of the schools within Trico CUSD 176, caters to 182 students in grades 6 through 8. That puts it 61% below the typical public school in Illinois, which averages around 462 students.

Trico CUSD 176 comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 879 students; Trico Jr High School is among them.

On the student-mix side, Trico Jr High School reports that 80% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest consists of 18% Hispanic.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school reports having 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.1:1. The state averages about 13.0:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 58% of students at Trico Jr High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Jackson County runs at roughly 73%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Trico Jr High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 38.2%, the actual is 44.4%, a residual of +6.2 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Jackson County indicate the typical household earns roughly $48,763 per year, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Jackson County's 32 public schools (combined enrollment of about 6,811 students), Trico Jr High School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Trico Senior High School, around 0.1 miles off. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Trico Jr High School at 3rd of 9; the average score across the group is 38.7%.

Trico Jr High School operates from a countryside location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 12%: 208 students in 2018 compared to 182 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment expanded from 3% to 18% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 14.9:1 in 2018 to 13.1:1 today.

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