Alden-Hebron Middle School

Alden-Hebron Middle School is a very small intermediate school in Hebron, Illinois, run under Alden Hebron SD 19. The school serves 99 students in grades 6 through 8. That puts it 79% below the typical public school in Illinois, which averages around 462 students.

Alden Hebron SD 19 runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 421 students. Alden-Hebron Middle School is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Alden-Hebron Middle School logs that 71% of the student body identifies as White; the rest consists of 29% Hispanic. By comparison, McHenry County as a whole is about 80% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school employs 9 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.5:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.0:1, putting Alden-Hebron Middle School tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 36% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

With demographic context factored in, Alden-Hebron Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.5%, the actual is 49.3%, a residual of -1.3 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (McHenry County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $104,802 per year, about 35% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. Alden-Hebron Middle School is one of 89 public schools in McHenry County (combined enrollment of about 50,123 students).

Alden-Hebron High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 2 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Alden-Hebron Middle School comes 4th of 7 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 48.8%.

Alden-Hebron Middle School operates from a small-town location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Alden-Hebron Middle School has climbed 19%, going from 83 students in 2018 to 99 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment increased from 24% to 29% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 9.5:1 in 2018 to 11.5:1 today.

Within the allk12 community for this school, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.