Alex M Martino Jr High School

Set in New Lenox, Illinois, Alex M Martino Jr High School is a reasonably sized middle school, part of New Lenox SD 122. It hosts 591 students across grades 7 through 8. By comparison, Illinois's public schools average about 462 students each, so Alex M Martino Jr High School sits 28% larger than that benchmark.

New Lenox SD 122 comprises 12 schools with combined enrollment of 4,956 students; Alex M Martino Jr High School is among them.

Demographically, Alex M Martino Jr High School reports that 84% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest breaks down as 10% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Will County as a whole is about 62% White, so the school skews considerably more White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Alex M Martino Jr High School has 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.6:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.0:1 average. Roughly 11% of students at Alex M Martino Jr High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is lower than Will County's rate of about 44%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Alex M Martino Jr High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 65.3%, the actual is 58.8%, a residual of -6.5 points.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Will County put the typical household earns roughly $109,984 per year, about 38% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Alex M Martino Jr High School is one of 209 public schools in Will County (combined enrollment of about 113,008 students).

Bentley Elem School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Alex M Martino Jr High School ranks 4th on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 58.6%.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Alex M Martino Jr High School's enrollment has increased 3% since 2018, when it stood at 572 (now 591). Over the same period, the White share fell from 88% to 84%.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around classroom updates, athletics, and weather closures. Members of the school community can share what they know.