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Sterling High School, Sterling, IL

CEP schoolSterling High School is a public high school in Sterling, part of Sterling CUSD 5. It enrolled 999 students in 2024-25, with 17.5 students per full-time teacher.

Enrollment and teachers

Students
999
Teachers (FTE)
57.0
Students per teacher
17.5
Grades
9 to 12

This school's ratio is 2.4 higher than the district figure of 15.1. The Illinois average across schools is 13.7. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.

This school17.5
District15.1
Illinois13.7
United States15.3

School details

Address
1608 4th Ave, Sterling, IL 61081
Phone
(815)625-6800
District
Sterling CUSD 5
County
Whiteside County
Level
High
Type
Regular
Status
Open
Charter
No
Virtual
No
Locale
Town: Distant
NCES school ID
174231004261
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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
54054.1% 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.

Related schools

High schools elsewhere in Sterling

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.