Antioch Upper Grade School

As a sprawling middle school in Antioch, Illinois, Antioch Upper Grade School works with 875 students from grades 6 through 8, one of the schools within Antioch CCSD 34. By comparison, Illinois's public schools average about 462 students each, so Antioch Upper Grade School sits 89% bigger than that benchmark.

Within Antioch CCSD 34, which oversees 5 schools and 2,574 students, Antioch Upper Grade School is one campus in the system.

Demographically, Antioch Upper Grade School lists that White students make up the majority at 66%. The remainder looks like 20% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 5% Black, 2% Asian.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 67 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.0:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 13.0:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 31% of students at Antioch Upper Grade School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Lake County (around 54%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Antioch Upper Grade School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 53.8%, the actual is 48.4%, a residual of -5.4 points.

Around the school, Lake County reports that median household income runs about $110,416, 48% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Antioch Upper Grade School is one of 214 public schools in Lake County (combined enrollment of about 118,032 students).

W C Petty Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Antioch Upper Grade School comes 2nd of 5 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 48.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a suburban area.

Over the past 7-year window. Antioch Upper Grade School's enrollment has contracted 10% since 2018, when it stood at 968 (now 875). White enrollment moved from 81% to 66% across the same window.

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