Hillsboro High School

Located at 522 E Tremont St, in Hillsboro, Illinois, Hillsboro High School is a small four-year high school that caters to 419 students (grades 9 through 12), run under Hillsboro CUSD 3. Enrollment runs roughly 50% below the state mean of about 834.

Hillsboro CUSD 3 runs 4 schools in total, collectively educating 1,518 students. Hillsboro High School is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Hillsboro High School logs that nearly all students (94%) are White; the rest reads as 3% Hispanic. That composition is broadly in line with Montgomery County as a whole.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.1:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 13.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 35% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Montgomery County (around 50%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Hillsboro High School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 51.1% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 37.9%.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Montgomery County put the typical household earns roughly $63,620 per year, 18% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. In all, Montgomery County runs 19 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,835 students), of which Hillsboro High School is one.

The closest other public school is Hillsboro Jr High School, roughly 0.2 miles away. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Hillsboro High School comes 5th of 6 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 47.5%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Hillsboro High School has shrank 19%, going from 519 students in 2018 to 419 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 16.2:1 in 2018 to 11.1:1 in 2025.

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