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Middle · Regular · Grades 7 to 8

Prairie Central Junior High School, Forrest, IL

Prairie Central Junior High School is a public middle school in Forrest, part of Prairie Central CUSD 8. It enrolled 250 students in 2024-25, with 12.5 students per full-time teacher.Listed in NCES data as "Prairie Central Jr High School".

Enrollment and teachers

Students
250
Teachers (FTE)
20.0
Students per teacher
12.5
Grades
7 to 8

This school's ratio is about the same as the district figure of 12.2. The Illinois average across schools is 13.7. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.

This school12.5
District12.2
Illinois13.7
United States15.3

School details

Address
800 N Wood St, Forrest, IL 61741
Phone
(815)657-8660
District
Prairie Central CUSD 8
County
Livingston County
Level
Middle
Type
Regular
Status
Open
Charter
No
Virtual
No
Locale
Rural: Remote
NCES school ID
170000505127
Location from NCES coordinates. Map data OpenStreetMap contributors. Open larger map

School meals

Counts of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, as reported to NCES.
Free or reduced-price lunch
13152.4% of enrollment.
Community Eligibility Provision
No

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.

Related schools

Other middle schools in Prairie Central CUSD 8

We publish official enrollment and staffing data, not ratings or test scores.

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.