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Public school / High

Central High School

Champaign, Illinois

NCES ID
170942000546
District
Champaign CUSD 4
School type
Regular
Title I
Not designated

Central High School is a public high school in Champaign, Illinois, run by Champaign CUSD 4. It enrols 1,597 students — the 3289th largest of 4,435 public schools in Illinois.

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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

1,597students

3289th nationally, tied with 7

Teachers

108.0FTE

2006th nationally, tied with 56

Students per teacher

14.8students

45536th nationally, tied with 1,033

Free or reduced-price lunch

45.5%percent

55079th nationally, tied with 111

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.

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Within Champaign CUSD 4

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.

Enrollment — same district
  1. 1Central High School1,597 students
  2. 2Centennial High School1,444 students
  3. 3Jefferson Middle School738 students
  4. 4Edison Middle School699 students
  5. 5Franklin Middle School677 students
  6. 6International Prep Academy568 students
  7. 7Stratton Elementary School476 students
  8. 8Robeson Elem School458 students
Distance from the state median

Baseline: Illinois median across 4,435 public schools. Bars right of the rule are above it.

  • Enrollment+295.3%
  • Teachers+315.4%
  • Students per teacher+8.0%
  • Free or reduced-price lunch−14.8%
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Where this sits

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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
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.

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Data as of September 1, 2022.