Paxton-Buckley-Loda High School

Paxton-Buckley-Loda High School
Address
700 West Orleans Street Paxton , Illinois 60957 United States
Coordinates	40°27′40″N 88°06′31″W / 40.4612°N 88.1086°W / 40.4612; -88.1086
Information
Type	Public secondary
School district	Paxton-Buckley-Loda Community Unit School District 10
Principal	Travis Duley
Teaching staff	34 (on an FTE basis)[1]
Grades	9–12
Enrollment	462 (2018-19)[1]
Student to teacher ratio	13.59:1[1]
Color(s)
Athletics conference	Illini Prairie Conference
Nickname	Panthers
Yearbook	Visions
Website	pblunit10.ss9.sharpschool.com/senior_high

Paxton-Buckley-Loda High School is a public high school located in Paxton, Illinois. Founded in 1990, it serves the communities of Paxton, Buckley and Loda. PBL had an enrollment of 472 students for the 2016–17 school year.

In 1990, declining enrollment at Buckley-Loda High School led to a consolidation with Paxton High School.^[2] A new school building was constructed to field all of the students,^[3] and the histories of the individual schools were left behind as the new PBL collaboration took effect. The current high school draws students from five Illinois counties, but the bulk of the student body hails from Ford and Iroquois counties.^[4]

PBL is 93 percent white, six percent Hispanic, and one percent black.^[5]

Paxton-Buckley-Loda offers Advanced Placement classes. About a third of PBL students take an AP class.^[6]

PBL has a competitive show choir, nicknamed "Unlimited".^[7]