Eisenhower High School - Decatur, Illinois/IL

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Eisenhower High School

1200 S 16th St, Decatur, IL, 62521-3885 -

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Definition of Terms

Eisenhower High School

School Level

High school

Grades Offered

Grades 9 - 12

County

Macon County, IL

Students & Faculty

Total Students

1229 students

% Male / % Female

50% / 50%

Total Classroom Teachers

47 teachers

Students by Grade

Grade 9 - 451 students

Grade 10 - 306 students

Grade 11 - 257 students

Grade 12 - 215 students

This School

(IL) School Average

Teacher : Student Ratio

1:26

1:16

Students by Ethnicity

This School

(IL) School Average

% American Indian	n/a	n/a
% Asian	1%	2%
% Hispanic	1%	10%
% Black	40%	19%
% White	58%	66%

Additional Student Information

This School

(IL) School Average

% Eligible for Free Lunch

44%

22%

% Eligible for Reduced Lunch

% Migrant Students Enrolled

n/a

n/a

(IL) Statewide Testing Performance

School Statewide Performance

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School District Name

Decatur 61 School District

This School's Agency

(IL) District Average

Number of Schools Managed	25	3
Number of Students Managed	10,634 students	984 students
District Total Revenue	$88,060,000	$9,428,000
District Expenditure	$95,192,000	$9,311,000
District Revenue / Student	$8,281	$9,581
District Expenditure / Student	$8,952	$9,462
District Graduation Rates	66%	92%

In Chicago, Discipline Gap Widens (Skanner)
posted on November 24, 2009 at 05:27:37 pm
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) -- In the decade since mass protests over the punishment of six Black students in Decatur, the state's racial gap in discipline has split wide open.
Racial discipline gap widens (The Galesburg Register-Mail)
posted on November 23, 2009 at 03:57:34 pm
In the decade since mass protests over the punishment of six black students in Decatur, the state’s racial gap in discipline has split wide open. It’s such a gaping hole that now more than half of all Illinois children suspended from public schools are black, even though they represent less than one-fifth of the enrollment, according to an Associated Press analysis.
'A very painful time for our community' (Chicago Sun-Times)
posted on November 23, 2009 at 11:05:03 am
For the people at the heart of an uproar a decade ago over the expulsions of six black boys from a Decatur school, reminders of the national scrutiny the town endured and the divide the situation created are never far away.Kenneth Arndt is no longer the superintendent of the city's schools, but he keeps an inch-long blue, velvet ribbon framed on the wall of his office -- a ribbon he says he and ...
The Community Weighs In On Decatur's Two High Schools (WCIA 3 Champaign-Urbana)
posted on November 17, 2009 at 12:08:00 am
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Eisenhower Class of 1963 finds its ties still bind, grow stronger (Herald & Review)
posted on November 8, 2009 at 06:20:11 am
DECATUR - Bill Boedecker, 64, is the kind of guy who keeps in touch with his high school classmates by attending his class reunion every five years.