High · Illinois
MacArthur High School
Free meals for allMacArthur High School, a public high school in Decatur, Illinois: grades 9–12, 1,059 students, 20.0 students per teacher (2024–25 school year). Part of Decatur SD 61.
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
- 1,059
- Teachers (FTE)
- 53.0
- Students per teacher
- 20.0
- Grades
- 9–12
- High
More students per teacher than 97% of high schools in Illinois
Median 13.5 · 694 schools compared
More students per teacher than 82% of high schools in the US
Median 14.4 · 20,809 schools compared
Larger than 70% of high schools in Illinois
Median 431 · 708 schools compared
Larger than 76% of high schools in the US
Median 414 · 22,064 schools compared
What it offers
- Grades
- High · Grades 9–12
- Type
- District school · Regular
- Instruction
- In person
- Meals
- Free breakfast and lunch for every student
- Area
- Small city
- Run by
- Decatur SD 61
Which school a home is assigned to is decided by the district's attendance zones; check with Decatur SD 61.
Location
- Address
- 1499 W Grand Ave, Decatur, IL 62522
- Phone
- (217)362-3152
- City or town
- Decatur
- County
- Macon 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
Eisenhower High SchoolFree meals for all | 9–12 | 909 | 17.2 |
Milligan Academy RsspAlternative | 6–11 | 0 | — |
Futures UnlimitedAlternative | 9–12 | 0 | — |
Option ThreeAlternative | 6–12 | 0 | — |
Heartland Technical AcademyCareer and technical | 11–12 | 0 | — |
| 9–12 | 336 | 17.7 |
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).
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