Public school / High
Waterloo High School
Waterloo, Illinois
- NCES ID
- 174107004113
- District
- Waterloo CUSD 5
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Waterloo High School is a public high school in Waterloo, Illinois, run by Waterloo CUSD 5. It enrols 895 students — the 10993rd 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
895
Teachers
51.0
Students per teacher
17.5
Free or reduced-price lunch
20.1%
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 Waterloo 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.
- 1Waterloo High School895 students
- 2Waterloo Junior High School619 students
- 3W J Zahnow Elem School488 students
- 4Gardner Elementary School399 students
- 5Rogers Elem School367 students
- Enrollment+121.5%
- Teachers+96.2%
- Students per teacher+27.7%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−62.4%
Where this sits
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