Middle · Illinois
Challand Middle School
Free meals for allChalland Middle School, a public middle school in Sterling, Illinois: grades 6–8, 726 students, 16.5 students per teacher (2024–25 school year). Part of Sterling CUSD 5.
Size and class size
Compared with middle schools of the same state and the whole country. Students per teacher counts every full-time-equivalent teacher, not the size of each class.
- Students
- 726
- Teachers (FTE)
- 44.0
- Students per teacher
- 16.5
- Grades
- 6–8
- Middle
More students per teacher than 92% of middle schools in Illinois
Median 12.7 · 689 schools compared
More students per teacher than 67% of middle schools in the US
Median 14.6 · 15,584 schools compared
Larger than 82% of middle schools in Illinois
Median 428 · 691 schools compared
Larger than 72% of middle schools in the US
Median 524 · 16,046 schools compared
State test results
Share of students scoring proficient or above on Illinois's tests, grades 3–8, 2024–25 school year.
Reading and writing
Illinois: 53%38%proficient
New test or proficiency bar this year: not comparable with the year before.
A lower share proficient than 78% of middle schools in Illinois
Median 57% · 605 middle schools compared
704 students tested, grades 6, 7, 8 · IAR; proficient means Levels 3-4 Approximate: the state published a range or left out some grades.
Math
Illinois: 39%26%proficient
New test or proficiency bar this year: not comparable with the year before.
A lower share proficient than 60% of middle schools in Illinois
Median 31% · 631 middle schools compared
701 students tested, grades 6, 7, 8 · IAR; proficient means Levels 3-4 Approximate: the state published a range or left out some grades.
Each state sets its own test and its own bar for “proficient”, so results compare only within a state. Results also follow family income closely: a school's share reflects its students' circumstances as much as its teaching.
Data sourced from the Education Data Center (www.eddatacenter.org), a partner project of the National Center for Civic Innovation, Inc. State Assessment Data Repository version 3.1. More information about these assessments over time, including participation and test changes, is available from the Education Data Center.
What it offers
- Grades
- Middle · Grades 6–8
- Type
- District school · Regular
- Instruction
- In person
- Meals
- Free breakfast and lunch for every student
- Area
- Distant town
- Run by
- Sterling CUSD 5
Which school a home is assigned to is decided by the district's attendance zones; check with Sterling CUSD 5.
Location
- Address
- 1700 6th Ave, Sterling, IL 61081
- Phone
- (815)626-3300
- City or town
- Sterling
- County
- Whiteside County
Nearby middle schools
The closest public middle schools by straight-line distance. Attendance zones are set by each district.
| School | Grades | Students | Students / teacher | Reading | Math |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Rock Falls Middle SchoolFree meals for all | 6–8 | 246 | 11.3 | 72% | 33% |
| 6–8 | 585 | 15.9 | 52% | 27% | |
Aplington Middle SchoolFree meals for all | 6–8 | 114 | 12.8 | — | 19% |
| 6–8 | 215 | 15.4 | 45% | 36% | |
| 6–8 | 148 | 11.2 | 79% | 21% | |
Amboy Jr High SchoolFree meals for all | 5–8 | 210 | 12.0 | — | 31% |
Reading and Math: share of tested students proficient or above on the state's own tests (grades 3–8, 2024–25 school year). Compare only within a state.
Data sourced from the Education Data Center (www.eddatacenter.org), a partner project of the National Center for Civic Innovation, Inc. State Assessment Data Repository version 3.1. More information about these assessments over time, including participation and test changes, is available from the Education Data Center.
Sources
- Public schools and school districts (National Center for Education Statistics · U.S. Census Bureau), 2024–25 school year. NCES Common Core of Data and EDGE public school geocodes; U.S. Census Bureau, Annual Survey of School System Finances and cartographic boundary files (places).
- State Assessment Data Repository (Education Data Center), 2024–25 school year. Data sourced from the Education Data Center (www.eddatacenter.org), a partner project of the National Center for Civic Innovation, Inc. State Assessment Data Repository v3.1.
Analisa does not rate schools. Figures are what a school has (students, teachers, programs), placed among schools of the same level; state test results are compared only within a state.
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