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Teachers: what resource would make the biggest difference at Bernard W Flinn Middle School this year?
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Enrollment
807
Middle
DISTRICT 759 · STATE 462
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ROCKFORD SD 205·NCES 173451003583
Bernard W Flinn Middle School
2525 Ohio Pkwy, Rockford, IL 61108 · (815) 229-2800 · Winnebago County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE12-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL807 STUDENTS
D
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 6% of Illinois public middle schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Illinois public middle schools
Student : Teacher
16.5:1
49 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.8:1 · STATE 13.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
70%
561 students
DISTRICT 71% · STATE 56%
Community
5
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 251 | 31% |
| Grade 7 | 271 | 34% |
| Grade 8 | 285 | 35% |
Student demographics
73%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 73% · STATE 69% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
IAR + ISA 2024-25 . % Proficient (Levels 4-5)English Language Arts
29.4%
IL avg 51.0% . +7.1pp since 2023
Math
11.2%
IL avg 37.9% . +5.4pp since 2023
What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 29 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 11 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Illinois schools, those numbers are about 51 and 38. Reading and writing scores are up about 7 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 5 points.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 29.4% | 11.2% |
| 2023-24 | 22.3% | 5.8% |
% Proficient (Levels 4-5), all students and all tested grades.
Source: IAR + ISA. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
20.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
31.4%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-10.9pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 20% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 31% typical for Illinois schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Illinois's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Bernard W Flinn Middle School
Bernard W Flinn Middle School's state test result (20.4% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bernard W Flinn Middle School this school | 807 | 69.5% | 20.4% |
| Woodrow Wilson Middle School Moline | 860 | 63.1% | 31.5% |
| Bloomington Jr High School Bloomington | 1,050 | 65.0% | 27.7% |
| Huntley Middle School Dekalb | 865 | 63.8% | 22.0% |
| Washington Jr High School Rock Island | 529 | 64.5% | 28.7% |
| Dorris Intermediate School Collinsville | 871 | 69.0% | 38.1% |
Matched among Illinois middle schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Bernard W Flinn Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Illinois | In Winnebago County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 20.4% | #521 of 578 | #10 of 15 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 11.2% | #582 of 640 ▲ 17 | #10 of 15 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 29.4% | #574 of 640 ▼ 18 | #10 of 15 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 807 | #86 of 691 | #4 of 16 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.5:1 | #507 of 558 | #6 of 12 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 72.8% | #13 of 560 | #1 of 13 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 69.5% | #108 of 581 | #5 of 15 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -4.8% | #367 of 440 | #4 of 7 |
Ranked against other public middle schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
807
-138 (-15%) vs 2020
-21% since 1990-91, when it was 1,025
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 807 | 49 | 16.5:1 | 70% (561) |
| 2023-24 | 800 | 52.4 | 15.3:1 | 73% (581) |
| 2022-23 | 830 | 50.2 | 16.6:1 | 68% (565) |
| 2020-21 | 945 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 848 | 56.5 | 15.0:1 | 56% (476) |
| 2015-16 | 973 | 62 | 15.7:1 | 55% (534) |
| 2010-11 | 885 | 51 | 17.4:1 | 75% (665) |
| 2000-01 | 921 | 59 | 15.6:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 1,025 | 67 | 15.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Bernard W Flinn Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students down 5% (848 to 807); teachers down 13% (56.5 to 49).
About Bernard W Flinn Middle School
At 2525 Ohio Pkwy in Rockford, Illinois, Bernard W Flinn Middle School operates as a high-enrollment middle school. It reports enrollment of 807 students in grades 6 through 8. The school is 75% bigger than the average for middle schools in Illinois.
District-wide, Rockford SD 205 has 44 schools and 28,467 students.
The student body at Bernard W Flinn Middle School has no majority group. White students lead at 37%. The next largest groups are 27% Hispanic, 24% Black, 6% multiracial, and 6% Asian. The school's White share is 30 points below the 66% share among Winnebago County residents. A diversity index of 73% means there is a 73% chance two randomly chosen students at Bernard W Flinn Middle School are from different groups.
Classroom staffing at Bernard W Flinn Middle School totals 49 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the student-to-teacher ratio is 16.5:1. The average for middle schools in Illinois is 13.0:1, so this school has more students per teacher. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility at Bernard W Flinn Middle School is about 70%. By comparison, the figure for public schools in Winnebago County is 61%.
On the allk12 Grade, Bernard W Flinn Middle School lands at D, ahead of 6% of Illinois public middle schools.
The allk12 BeatsExpectations score for Bernard W Flinn Middle School is -10.9 points: 20.4% actual, 31.4% predicted.
American Community Survey estimates for Winnebago County show that the median household earns about $65,837 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 25%, and about 11% of people live in poverty. Winnebago County has 94 public schools with about 44,103 students, including Bernard W Flinn Middle School.
Measured in a straight line, Whitehead Elementary School is about 0.2 miles from Bernard W Flinn Middle School. Other public schools within five miles: at least 8. Among 7 nearby schools that report test results, Bernard W Flinn Middle School ranks 5th on proficiency.
By NCES locale, the school is City: Mid-size, or inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
Enrollment in 2024-25 stood at 807, compared with 945 in 2020-21.
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Winnebago County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
283,292
Census ACS
Median income
$65,837
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
25%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
94
44,103 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Rockford SD 205
- Guilford High SchoolHigh · 2,216 students
- Jefferson High SchoolHigh · 2,173 students
- Auburn High SchoolHigh · 1,957 students
- Rockford East High SchoolHigh · 1,719 students
- Rockford Envrnmntl Science AcademyMiddle · 1,108 students
- Eisenhower Middle SchoolMiddle · 963 students
Other schools in Rockford
- Guilford High SchoolHigh · 2,216 students
- Jefferson High SchoolHigh · 2,173 students
- Auburn High SchoolHigh · 1,957 students
- Rockford East High SchoolHigh · 1,719 students
- Rockford Envrnmntl Science AcademyMiddle · 1,108 students
- Eisenhower Middle SchoolMiddle · 963 students
Nearby schools
- Whitehead Elementary School0.2 mi · 678
- Swan Hillman Elementary School0.7 mi · 581
- Rolling Green0.8 mi · 505
- Wm Nashold Early Childhood Center1.1 mi · 530
- Rockford East High School1.2 mi · 1,719
- Fairview Early Childhood Center1.5 mi · 538
Frequently asked questions
About Bernard W Flinn Middle SchoolHow large is Bernard W Flinn Middle School?
Bernard W Flinn Middle School enrolls approximately 807 students in grades 06-08.
Is Bernard W Flinn Middle School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Bernard W Flinn Middle School is a middle school covering grades 06-08.
How many teachers does Bernard W Flinn Middle School have?
Bernard W Flinn Middle School employs 49 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 16.5:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Bernard W Flinn Middle School?
At Bernard W Flinn Middle School, the student body is approximately 37% White, 27% Hispanic, 24% Black, 6% Asian, 6% Two or more.
Is Bernard W Flinn Middle School public or private?
Bernard W Flinn Middle School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Rockford SD 205.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.