Waltonville High School

Waltonville High School is one of the minimally staffed senior highs in Waltonville, Illinois, run under Waltonville CUSD 1, with 98 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 834 students per school, that is 88% smaller than typical.

Across the 2 schools in Waltonville CUSD 1 (310 students total), Waltonville High School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, Waltonville High School logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (97%). By comparison, Jefferson County as a whole is about 84% White, so the school skews meaningfully more White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 9 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.9:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.8:1 average. About 47% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is below Jefferson County's rate of about 60%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Waltonville High School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 44.4%; this one delivers 32.7%.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Jefferson County indicate median household earnings sit near $63,118, about 18% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Across Jefferson County's 31 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,314 students), Waltonville High School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Waltonville Grade School, around 0.1 miles off. Within ten miles, there are 8 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. On composite proficiency, Waltonville High School comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 33.8%.

The campus sits in a countryside setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Waltonville High School's enrollment has contracted 3% since 2018, when it stood at 101 (now 98). Class-load math has pulled in: from 16.7:1 in 2018 to 10.9:1 in 2025.

In the discussion threads here, recent activity here tends to focus on sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.