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Public school / Middle

Challand Middle School

Sterling, Illinois

NCES ID
174231004264
District
Sterling CUSD 5
School type
Regular
Title I
Not designated

Challand Middle School is a public middle school in Sterling, Illinois, run by Sterling CUSD 5. It enrols 710 students — the 18737th 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

710students

18737th nationally, tied with 55

Teachers

45.0FTE

19151st nationally, tied with 968

Students per teacher

15.8students

54892nd nationally, tied with 904

Free or reduced-price lunch

50.1%percent

50400th nationally, tied with 71

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 Sterling CUSD 5

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. 1Sterling High School1,049 students
  2. 2Challand Middle School710 students
  3. 3Franklin Elem School414 students
  4. 4Jefferson Elem School401 students
  5. 5Lincoln Elem School350 students
  6. 6Washington Elem School340 students
Distance from the state median

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

  • Enrollment+75.7%
  • Teachers+73.1%
  • Students per teacher+15.3%
  • Free or reduced-price lunch−6.2%
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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.