A Vito Martinez Middle School

A Vito Martinez Middle School operates as a medium-sized middle-grades school in Romeoville, Illinois, run under Valley View CUSD 365U. Current enrollment sits at 583 students spanning grades 6 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 462 students per school, that is 26% bigger than typical.

Across the 20 schools in Valley View CUSD 365U (14,710 students total), A Vito Martinez Middle School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, A Vito Martinez Middle School logs that 52% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school shows 20% Black, 19% White, 5% Asian, 4% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 20%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 55 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.6:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.0:1, putting A Vito Martinez Middle School tighter than the state norm the norm. About 56% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Will County runs at roughly 44%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, A Vito Martinez Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 39.4%, the actual is 52.9%, a residual of +13.5 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Will County indicate median household income runs about $109,984, roughly 38% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Across Will County's 209 public schools (combined enrollment of about 113,008 students), A Vito Martinez Middle School is one campus in the mix.

Irene King Elem School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), A Vito Martinez Middle School ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 47.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 28%: 807 students in 2018 compared to 583 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 31% to 19% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 14.4:1 in 2018 to 10.6:1 today.

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