Von Steuben Middle School

Set in Peoria, Illinois, Von Steuben Middle School is a compact junior high, run under Peoria SD 150. It works with 266 students across grades 5 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 462 students per school, that is 42% below typical.

Peoria SD 150 comprises 25 schools with combined enrollment of 13,312 students; Von Steuben Middle School is among them.

On demographics, Von Steuben Middle School records that the largest single group is Black, at 61% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school lists 16% multiracial, 14% White, 8% Hispanic. By comparison, Peoria County as a whole is about 17% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.4:1. The state averages around 13.0:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 88% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Peoria County (around 57%), the school's rate is north of typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Von Steuben Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 20.9%, the actual is 15.3%, a residual of -5.7 points.

In the surrounding community, Peoria County reports that the typical household earns roughly $65,108 per year, roughly 35% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Von Steuben Middle School is one of 81 public schools in Peoria County (combined enrollment of about 27,827 students).

Nearest neighbor: Reservoir Gifted School, around 0.9 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Von Steuben Middle School comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 26.2%.

Von Steuben Middle School operates from a downtown location.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 5%: 279 students in 2018 compared to 266 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share increased from 53% to 61%. Class-load math has loosened: from 13.9:1 in 2018 to 16.4:1 in 2025.

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