High · Regular · Grades 5 to 12

Beardstown Junior/Senior High School, Beardstown, IL

CEP schoolBeardstown Junior/Senior High School is a public high school in Beardstown, part of Beardstown CUSD 15. It enrolled 820 students in 2024-25, with 15.8 students per full-time teacher.Listed in NCES data as "Beardstown Jr/Sr High School".

Enrollment and teachers

Students: 820
Teachers (FTE): 52.0
Students per teacher: 15.8
Grades: 5 to 12

This school's ratio is 1.0 lower than the district figure of 16.8. The Illinois average across schools is 13.7. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.

This school15.8

District16.8

Illinois13.7

United States15.3

School details

Address: 500 E 15th St, Beardstown, IL 62618
Phone: (217)323-3665
District: Beardstown CUSD 15
County: Cass County
Level: High
Type: Regular
Status: Open
Charter: No
Virtual: No
Locale: Town: Remote
NCES school ID: 170531000216

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School meals

Counts of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, as reported to NCES.

Free or reduced-price lunch: 63477.3% of enrollment.
Community Eligibility Provision: Yes (CEP school)

Schools in the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) serve free meals to all students, so their free lunch counts often reflect direct certification or total enrollment. Free and reduced lunch shares are not comparable between CEP and non-CEP schools.

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Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 and F-33 finance 2020, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. Last reviewed October 2026. Blank values are not available, not applicable or suppressed in the source. See the methodology.