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Public school / Middle

Chiddix Jr High School

Normal, Illinois

NCES ID
172862002996
District
Mclean County USD 5
School type
Regular
Title I
Not designated

Chiddix Jr High School is a public middle school in Normal, Illinois, run by Mclean County USD 5. It enrols 594 students — the 27333rd 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

594students

27333rd nationally, tied with 93

Teachers

47.0FTE

17316th nationally, tied with 865

Students per teacher

12.6students

25191st nationally, tied with 811

Free or reduced-price lunch

30.3%percent

69311th nationally, tied with 77

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 Mclean County USD 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. 1Normal Community High School2,131 students
  2. 2Normal Community West High School1,628 students
  3. 3Kingsley Jr High School753 students
  4. 4Evans Junior High School742 students
  5. 5Parkside Jr High School641 students
  6. 6Benjamin Elem School613 students
  7. 7Chiddix Jr High School594 students
  8. 8Grove Elementary School513 students
Distance from the state median

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

  • Enrollment+47.0%
  • Teachers+80.8%
  • Students per teacher−8.0%
  • Free or reduced-price lunch−43.3%
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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.