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EDITION 2026.08 /8,821 RECORDS / PUBLIC DOMAIN

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Public school / Middle

Mt Zion Jr High School

Mount Zion, Illinois

NCES ID
172739002905
School type
Regular
Title I
Not designated

Mt Zion Jr High School is a public middle school in Mount Zion, Illinois, run by Mt Zion CUSD 3. It enrols 403 students — the 50432nd 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

403students

50432nd nationally, tied with 157

Teachers

20.0FTE

64854th nationally, tied with 2,293

Students per teacher

20.2students

79336th nationally, tied with 290

Free or reduced-price lunch

24.3%percent

74033rd nationally, tied with 80

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 Mt Zion CUSD 3

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. 1Mt Zion High School763 students
  2. 2Mt Zion Intermediate School534 students
  3. 3Mt Zion Jr High School403 students
  4. 4Mcgaughey Elem School382 students
  5. 5Mt Zion Elem School329 students
Distance from the state median

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

  • Enrollment−0.2%
  • Teachers−23.1%
  • Students per teacher+47.4%
  • Free or reduced-price lunch−54.5%
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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.