Waverly Jr/Sr High School

Located at 201 N Miller St, in Waverly, Illinois, Waverly Jr/Sr High School is an one-room-style 9-12 campus that hosts 147 students (grades 7 through 12), part of Waverly CUSD 6. By comparison, Illinois's public schools average about 834 students each, so Waverly Jr/Sr High School sits 82% leaner than that benchmark.

Waverly Jr/Sr High School is one of 2 schools operated by Waverly CUSD 6, a district that hosts 329 students overall.

On demographics, Waverly Jr/Sr High School reports that 90% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 6% multiracial, 3% Asian. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 8 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.5:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.8:1, putting Waverly Jr/Sr High School higher than the state norm the norm. About 51% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Waverly Jr/Sr High School falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 42.0%; this one comes in at 24.5%, -17.6 points off the demographic line.

In the area at large, census data for Morgan County shows the typical household earns roughly $66,306 per year, roughly 23% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Across Morgan County's 28 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,446 students), Waverly Jr/Sr High School is one campus in the mix.

Waverly Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Waverly Jr/Sr High School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Waverly Jr/Sr High School at 6th of 7; the average score across the group is 43.0%.

The campus sits in a rural setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 15%: 172 students in 2018 compared to 147 in 2025. The White share of enrollment fell from 97% to 90% over that span. Class-load math has rose: from 15.7:1 in 2018 to 17.5:1 in 2025.

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