Barrington Mdle Sch- Prairie Cmps

Set in Barrington, Illinois, Barrington Mdle Sch- Prairie Cmps is a roomy junior high, one of the schools within Barrington CUSD 220. It caters to 980 students across grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 112% above the state mean of about 462.

Barrington CUSD 220 comprises 12 schools with combined enrollment of 7,936 students; Barrington Mdle Sch- Prairie Cmps is among them.

On demographics, Barrington Mdle Sch- Prairie Cmps shows that the most-represented group is White (54%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest comes out to 22% Asian, 19% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. That is visibly more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 44%.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Barrington Mdle Sch- Prairie Cmps has 72 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.7:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.0:1 average. Around 20% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Cook County runs at roughly 66%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Barrington Mdle Sch- Prairie Cmps performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 59.9%, the actual is 72.4%, a residual of +12.6 points.

Zooming out to the county, Cook County reports that median household income runs about $83,498, roughly 43% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Barrington Mdle Sch- Prairie Cmps is one of 1406 public schools in Cook County (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students).

Barrington Early Learning Center is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Barrington Mdle Sch- Prairie Cmps. On composite proficiency, Barrington Mdle Sch- Prairie Cmps comes 4th of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 71.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a suburban area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 9%: 1,078 students in 2018 compared to 980 in 2025.

Within the allk12 community for this school, posts here usually surface around enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. The community welcomes input from current and former families.