Brooks Middle School

Set in Bolingbrook, Illinois, Brooks Middle School is a large middle school, part of Valley View CUSD 365U. It hosts 850 students across grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Illinois's public schools average about 462 students each, so Brooks Middle School sits 84% bigger than that benchmark.

Within Valley View CUSD 365U, which oversees 20 schools and 14,710 students, Brooks Middle School is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Brooks Middle School logs that 43% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest comes out to 30% Black, 13% White, 8% Asian, 5% multiracial. By comparison, Will County as a whole is about 20% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 83 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.2:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 13.0:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 61% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Will County runs at roughly 44%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Brooks Middle School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 36.3%; this one delivers 44.5%.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Will County) logs that median household income runs about $109,984, roughly 38% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Will County's 209 public schools (combined enrollment of about 113,008 students), Brooks Middle School is one campus in the mix.

Oak View Elem School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Brooks Middle School. On composite proficiency, Brooks Middle School comes 3rd of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 42.5%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 25%: 1,138 students in 2018 compared to 850 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share expanded from 22% to 30%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 14.2:1 in 2018 to 10.2:1 in 2025.

Within the allk12 community for this school, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.