Unity Jr High School

Unity Jr High School operates as a tight-knit middle-grades school in Tolono, Illinois, overseen by Tolono CUSD 7. Current enrollment sits at 367 students spanning grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Illinois's public schools average about 462 students each, so Unity Jr High School sits 21% below that benchmark.

Across the 4 schools in Tolono CUSD 7 (1,487 students total), Unity Jr High School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Unity Jr High School logs that 87% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder reads as 6% multiracial, 3% Hispanic, 3% Black. By comparison, Champaign County as a whole is about 64% White, so the school skews considerably more White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.9:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.0:1 average. Roughly 28% of students at Unity Jr High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is lower than Champaign County's rate of about 53%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Unity Jr High School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 55.5%; this one delivers 45.0%.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Champaign County indicate median household earnings sit near $63,683, about 46% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. In all, Champaign County runs 66 public schools (combined enrollment of about 25,919 students), of which Unity Jr High School is one.

Unity High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Unity Jr High School at 5th of 8; the average score across the group is 49.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a low-density area.

Five-year trend. Unity Jr High School's enrollment has changed only slightly since 2018, when it stood at 376 (now 367). The White share of enrollment ticked down from 93% to 87% over that span.

On the community side, recent activity here tends to focus on fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.