YBMC Charter Sch

YBMC Charter Sch is a secondary school of rural-scale scale in Normal, Illinois, part of McLean County USD 5, educateing 16 students in grades 11 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 98% smaller than the state mean of about 834.

Across the 24 schools in McLean County USD 5 (12,407 students total), YBMC Charter Sch accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, YBMC Charter Sch lists that 44% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 31% White, 19% multiracial, 6% Hispanic. By comparison, McLean County as a whole is about 9% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 4 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 4.0:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 13.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical.

In the area at large, census data for McLean County shows median household earnings sit near $79,905, roughly 47% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, McLean County runs 60 public schools (combined enrollment of about 23,759 students), of which YBMC Charter Sch is one.

Nearest neighbor: Parkside Elementary School, around 1.1 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area. YBMC Charter Sch operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 69%: 52 students in 2018 compared to 16 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 48% to 31% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 17.3:1 in 2018 to 4.0:1 in 2025.

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