Meridian CUSD 101

Mounds, Illinois

Meridian CUSD 101 runs 2 public schools in Illinois, enrolling 460 students — the 11438th largest district in the country.

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At a glance

Schools

2schools

9136th nationally, tied with 2,808

Enrollment

460students

11438th nationally, tied with 10

Schools listed here

2in the directory

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The schools

Every measure NCES publishes for each of them, rather than a summary line — a district this size and its schools are close to the same thing, and the figures are what separate the two pages.

Meridian Elementary School

Mounds

Enrollment: 23673972nd nationally
Teachers: 21.062587th nationally
Students per teacher: 11.215144th nationally
Free or reduced-price lunch: 91.9%11250th nationally

Meridian High School

Mounds

Enrollment: 22475369th nationally
Teachers: 27.048484th nationally
Students per teacher: 8.34541st nationally
Free or reduced-price lunch: 96.9%7349th nationally

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The county it serves

Pulaski County in the American Community Survey — the conditions this district works in, measured by the Census Bureau rather than by the Department of Education.

Population

5,015

Median household income

$42,463

Poverty rate

25.0%

± 5.6%

Bachelor's degree or higher

13.0%

± 3.2%

Everything recorded for Pulaski County →

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Where this sits

Geographic context

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Sources & licence

Provenance

National Center for Education Statistics: Common Core of Data — school and district directory
Current · as of August 17, 2026U.S. Public Domain (NCES)
Collected and published by NCES; retrieved through the Urban Institute Education Data Portal, which republishes the NCES files unchanged.

Data as of September 1, 2022.