Blue Ridge High School
Farmer City · IL · Blue Ridge CUSD 18 · Public
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Deland-Weldon High School → LeRoy High School → Mahomet-Seymour High School → Tri-Valley High School → Fisher Jr/Sr High School → Monticello High School → Heyworth Jr-Sr High School → Clinton High School →📋 At a glance
- 📚 1 AP courses offered — Moderate
- 🎓 AP rigor: Bottom 50% of US high schools
- 📝 SAT/ACT participation: 58th percentile by test-taker volume
Composed from federal CRDC offerings, EDFacts ACGR, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.
How Blue Ridge High School compares for families
Solid mid-tier academic profile.
- ▸ LocallyIL sits right at the US average on NAEP 8th-grade math — local school quality will set your kid apart.
- ▸ vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: Deland-Weldon High School, LeRoy High School, Mahomet-Seymour High School and 5 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.
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🎓 Academic rigor
AP + advanced-course offerings
Moderate — some AP / advanced course access
Bottom 50% of US high schools
Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2020-21). CRDC reports what's offered + enrolled — it doesn't collect AP exam pass rates (College Board owns that data and doesn't release it school-level).
SAT / ACT participation
CRDC federal data · 2020-2158th percentile by test-taker volume
Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2020-21). Volume — not score — is what's reported here. A higher count means more students at this school are entering the college admissions pipeline. Note: 2020-21 was COVID-disrupted; some districts (especially those that stayed remote longer) report unusually low or zero takers.
🏛️ Federal Title I context
Title I Schoolwide eligible
≥40% FRPL — qualifies for Title I Schoolwide program
40-74% of students qualify for free/reduced lunch. The district can use Title I funds across the whole school under federal Schoolwide Program rules.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data, free/reduced-price lunch eligibility. The actual Title I designation is a district decision and may differ from eligibility — but the federal eligibility math is what we show here. We don't claim to assert whether the district formally chose to enroll this school in Title I.
Chronic absenteeism
Why this matters to enrollment: Chronic absence is the most reliable early indicator that a student will leave a school — either by transferring out, dropping out, or matriculating to a charter or private alternative. At this level, today's absentees become next year's enrollment loss and the year-after's revenue loss. For school leaders: an Enrollment Trend Audit traces this dynamic forward →
Source: U.S. Department of Education, Civil Rights Data Collection 2020–2021. Rate = students chronically absent ÷ 2024 total enrollment.
Enrollment trend & projection
Total enrollment + grade 12, NCES Common Core of Data (2021–2024).
If the recent trend holds…
At its recent rate of -6.9%/year, projecting from 2024's 155 students:
A small or specialty program — naive trend math doesn't capture the school's full picture. Read the trend as directional, not predictive.
An extrapolation of the recent trajectory, not a forecast of the school's plans; ignores one-off shocks.
Nearby high schools — the local competition
The closest high schools families here also consider, and where their enrollment is heading.
| School | Type | Miles | HS enrollment | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Deland-Weldon High School De Land |
Public | 8.5 | 45 | — |
| LeRoy High School Le Roy |
Public | 8.9 | 232 | +6.4% |
| Mahomet-Seymour High School Mahomet |
Public | 12.8 | 1,050 | +2.1% |
| Tri-Valley High School Downs |
Public | 15.4 | 329 | +7.9% |
| Fisher Jr/Sr High School Fisher |
Public | 16.0 | 197 | +2.1% |
| Monticello High School Monticello |
Public | 16.3 | 489 | +1.0% |
| Heyworth Jr-Sr High School Heyworth |
Public | 18.2 | 272 | +5.8% |
| Clinton High School Clinton |
Public | 18.8 | 514 | +2.2% |