Middle · Illinois

Orion Middle School

Orion Middle School, a public middle school in Orion, Illinois: grades 6–8, 244 students, 14.2 students per teacher (2024–25 school year). Part of Orion CUSD 223.

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
244
Teachers (FTE)
17.1
Students per teacher
14.2
Grades
6–8
Middle

More students per teacher than 74% of middle schools in Illinois

Median 12.7 · 689 schools compared

Fewer students per teacher than 53% of middle schools in the US

Median 14.6 · 15,584 schools compared

Smaller than 74% of middle schools in Illinois

Median 428 · 691 schools compared

Smaller than 82% 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%

67%proficient

New test or proficiency bar this year: not comparable with the year before.

A higher share proficient than 62% of middle schools in Illinois

Median 57% · 605 middle schools compared

156 students tested, grades 6, 8 · IAR; proficient means Levels 3-4 Approximate: the state published a range or left out some grades.

Math

Illinois: 39%

46%proficient

New test or proficiency bar this year: not comparable with the year before.

A higher share proficient than 74% of middle schools in Illinois

Median 31% · 631 middle schools compared

165 students tested, grades 6, 7 · 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
Area
Distant rural area

Which school a home is assigned to is decided by the district's attendance zones; check with Orion CUSD 223.

Location

Address
800 12th Ave, Orion, IL 61273
Phone
(309)526-3392
City or town
Orion

Nearby middle schools

The closest public middle schools by straight-line distance. Attendance zones are set by each district.

SchoolGradesStudentsStudents / teacherReadingMath
7–818911.644%28%
5–81,09212.534%16%
Coolidge RSSPAlternative
7–80———
6–886016.545%22%
6–877015.431%19%
6–818610.934%13%

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

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.

NCES 173020003121