High · Illinois
DeKalb High School
Free meals for allDeKalb High School, a public high school in Dekalb, Illinois: grades 9–12, 2,134 students, 15.0 students per teacher (2024–25 school year). Part of DeKalb CUSD 428.
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
- 2,134
- Teachers (FTE)
- 141.9
- Students per teacher
- 15.0
- Grades
- 9–12
- High
More students per teacher than 66% of high schools in Illinois
Median 13.5 · 694 schools compared
More students per teacher than 54% of high schools in the US
Median 14.4 · 20,809 schools compared
Larger than 90% of high schools in Illinois
Median 431 · 708 schools compared
Larger than 94% of high schools in the US
Median 414 · 22,064 schools compared
State test results
No state test results published for this school: state tests cover grades 3–8, and small groups are not published.
What it offers
- Grades
- High · Grades 9–12
- Type
- District school · Regular
- Instruction
- In person
- Meals
- Free breakfast and lunch for every student
- Area
- Rural area near a city
- Run by
- DeKalb CUSD 428
Which school a home is assigned to is decided by the district's attendance zones; check with DeKalb CUSD 428.
Location
- Address
- 501 W Dresser Rd, Dekalb, IL 60115
- Phone
- (815)754-2100
- City or town
- DeKalb
- County
- DeKalb 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
Beyond One Barb Transition CenterAlternative | 12 | 0 | — |
| 9–12 | 1,161 | 15.6 | |
KEC Central EFE 170Alternative | 7–12 | 0 | — |
KEC Area Voc CenterCareer and technical | 11–12 | 0 | — |
| 9–12 | 485 | 13.9 | |
| 6–12 | 211 | 11.0 |
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).
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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