Public school / High
A B Shepard High Sch (Campus)
Palos Heights, Illinois
- NCES ID
- 170654000339
- District
- Chsd 218
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
A B Shepard High Sch (Campus) is a public high school in Palos Heights, Illinois, run by Chsd 218. It enrols 1,973 students — the 1903rd largest of 4,435 public schools in Illinois.
Reported figures, 2022–2023
The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.
Enrollment
1,973
Teachers
124.0
Students per teacher
15.9
Free or reduced-price lunch
64.6%
How these figures are defined
Enrollment
Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.
Teachers
Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.
Students per teacher
Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.
Free or reduced-price lunch
Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.
Within Chsd 218
Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.
- 1A B Shepard High Sch (Campus)1,973 students
- 2Dd Eisenhower High Sch (Campus)1,841 students
- 3H L Richards High Sch(Campus)1,676 students
- Enrollment+388.4%
- Teachers+376.9%
- Students per teacher+16.1%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+21.0%
Sources & licence
Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.
Provenance
- National Center for Education Statistics
- Common Core of Data — school and district directory