Public school / High
Jefferson High School
Rockford, Illinois
- NCES ID
- 173451003585
- District
- Rockford SD 205
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Jefferson High School is a public high school in Rockford, Illinois, run by Rockford SD 205. It enrols 2,114 students — the 1496th 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
2,114
Teachers
92.0
Students per teacher
23.0
Free or reduced-price lunch
69.0%
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 Rockford SD 205
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.
- 1Jefferson High School2,114 students
- 2Guilford High School2,071 students
- 3Auburn High School1,936 students
- 4Rockford East High School1,718 students
- 5Rockford Envrnmntl Science Acad1,051 students
- 6Eisenhower Middle School961 students
- 7West Middle School849 students
- 8Bernard W Flinn Middle School830 students
- Enrollment+423.3%
- Teachers+253.8%
- Students per teacher+67.9%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+29.2%
Where this sits
Geographic context
District
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