Public school / Middle
Parkside Jr High School
Normal, Illinois
- NCES ID
- 172862003004
- District
- Mclean County USD 5
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Parkside Jr High School is a public middle school in Normal, Illinois, run by Mclean County USD 5. It enrols 641 students — the 23313th 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
641
Teachers
49.0
Students per teacher
13.1
Free or reduced-price lunch
43.1%
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 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.
- 1Normal Community High School2,131 students
- 2Normal Community West High School1,628 students
- 3Kingsley Jr High School753 students
- 4Evans Junior High School742 students
- 5Parkside Jr High School641 students
- 6Benjamin Elem School613 students
- 7Chiddix Jr High School594 students
- 8Grove Elementary School513 students
- Enrollment+58.7%
- Teachers+88.5%
- Students per teacher−4.4%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−19.3%
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