Yankee Ridge Multilingual School

Yankee Ridge Multilingual School, a middle-of-the-pack elementary campus in Urbana, Illinois, operated by Urbana SD 116, serves 482 students, covering grades K through 5. That puts it 27% above the typical public school in Illinois, which averages around 381 students.

Urbana SD 116 runs 9 schools in total, collectively educating 4,658 students. Yankee Ridge Multilingual School is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Yankee Ridge Multilingual School records that 67% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Other groups include 17% White, 12% Black, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 8% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Yankee Ridge Multilingual School logs 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.8:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 63% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Champaign County (around 53%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Champaign County indicate median household income runs about $63,683, about 46% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. In all, Champaign County runs 66 public schools (combined enrollment of about 25,919 students), of which Yankee Ridge Multilingual School is one.

Yankee Ridge Elem School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Yankee Ridge Multilingual School.

Yankee Ridge Multilingual School operates from a high-density location.

Within the allk12 community for this school, posts here usually surface around fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.