High · Illinois
Plainfield South High School
Free meals for allPlainfield South High School, a public high school in Plainfield, Illinois: grades 9–12, 2,323 students, 17.0 students per teacher (2024–25 school year). Part of Plainfield SD 202.
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
- 2,323
- Teachers (FTE)
- 136.5
- Students per teacher
- 17.0
- Grades
- 9–12
- High
More students per teacher than 88% of high schools in Illinois
Median 13.5 · 694 schools compared
More students per teacher than 68% of high schools in the US
Median 14.4 · 20,809 schools compared
Larger than 93% of high schools in Illinois
Median 431 · 708 schools compared
Larger than 96% 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
- Large suburb
- Run by
- Plainfield SD 202
Which school a home is assigned to is decided by the district's attendance zones; check with Plainfield SD 202.
Location
- Address
- 7800 Caton Farm Rd, Plainfield, IL 60586
- Phone
- (815)439-5555
- City or town
- Joliet
- County
- Kendall 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
Plainfield High SchoolFree meals for all | 9–12 | 1,800 | 15.8 |
Plainfield AcademyAlternativeFree meals for all | 6–12 | 0 | — |
Will Co Detention Center 9-12Alternative | 9–12 | 0 | — |
Minooka AcademyAlternative | 9–12 | 0 | — |
| 9–12 | 2,399 | 17.6 | |
| 9–12 | 3,451 | 20.6 |
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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