High · Illinois
Cowden-Herrick Jr/Sr High School
Free meals for allCowden-Herrick Jr/Sr High School, a public high school in Cowden, Illinois: grades 6–12, 168 students, 9.9 students per teacher (2024–25 school year). Part of Cowden-Herrick CUSD 3A.
Size and class size
Compared with high 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
- 168
- Teachers (FTE)
- 17.0
- Students per teacher
- 9.9
- Grades
- 6–12
- High
Fewer students per teacher than 87% of high schools in Illinois
Median 13.5 · 694 schools compared
Fewer students per teacher than 82% of high schools in the US
Median 14.4 · 20,809 schools compared
Smaller than 81% of high schools in Illinois
Median 431 · 708 schools compared
Smaller than 73% of high schools in the US
Median 414 · 22,064 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%Not published: too few students tested.
New test or proficiency bar this year: not comparable with the year before.
IAR; proficient means Levels 3-4
Math
Illinois: 39%Not published: too few students tested.
New test or proficiency bar this year: not comparable with the year before.
IAR; proficient means Levels 3-4
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
- High · Grades 6–12
- Type
- District school · Regular
- Instruction
- In person
- Meals
- Free breakfast and lunch for every student
- Area
- Remote rural area
- Run by
- Cowden-Herrick CUSD 3A
Which school a home is assigned to is decided by the district's attendance zones; check with Cowden-Herrick CUSD 3A.
Location
- Address
- 633 County Highway 22, Cowden, IL 62422
- Phone
- (217)783-2125
- County
- Shelby County
Nearby high schools
The closest public high schools by straight-line distance. Attendance zones are set by each district.
| School | Grades | Students | Students / teacher |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6–12 | 165 | 10.0 | |
| 9–12 | 345 | 12.8 | |
Shelbyville BridgesAlternativeFree meals for all | 6–12 | 0 | — |
| 9–12 | 143 | 12.6 | |
Altamont High SchoolFree meals for all | 9–12 | 222 | 10.8 |
St Elmo Sr High SchoolFree meals for all | 9–12 | 113 | 12.8 |
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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