High · Illinois
Prairie Central High School
Prairie Central High School, a public high school in Fairbury, Illinois: grades 9–12, 487 students, 11.7 students per teacher (2024–25 school year). Part of Prairie Central CUSD 8.
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
- 487
- Teachers (FTE)
- 41.5
- Students per teacher
- 11.7
- Grades
- 9–12
- High
Fewer students per teacher than 70% of high schools in Illinois
Median 13.5 · 694 schools compared
Fewer students per teacher than 70% of high schools in the US
Median 14.4 · 20,809 schools compared
Larger than 53% of high schools in Illinois
Median 431 · 708 schools compared
Larger than 55% 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
- Area
- Distant rural area
- Run by
- Prairie Central CUSD 8
Which school a home is assigned to is decided by the district's attendance zones; check with Prairie Central CUSD 8.
Location
- Address
- 411 N 7th St, Fairbury, IL 61739
- Phone
- (815)692-2355
- City or town
- Fairbury
- County
- Livingston 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
Livingston Area Career CntrCareer and technical | 10–12 | 0 | — |
Pontiac High SchoolFree meals for all | 9–12 | 658 | 13.0 |
| 9–12 | 166 | 9.2 | |
Tri-Point High SchoolFree meals for all | 9–12 | 98 | 7.0 |
| 9–12 | 163 | 12.1 | |
Flanagan-Cornell High SchoolFree meals for all | 9–12 | 106 | 8.4 |
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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