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What's something Brooks Middle School does better than most schools?
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Enrollment
455
Middle
DISTRICT 297 · STATE 462
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·HARVEY SD 152·NCES 171845002129
Brooks Middle School
14741 Wallace St, Harvey, IL 60426 · (708) 333-6390 · Cook County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL455 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
17.5:1
26 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.2:1 · STATE 13.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
89%
405 students
DISTRICT 79% · 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 | 163 | 36% |
| Grade 7 | 132 | 29% |
| Grade 8 | 160 | 35% |
Student demographics
52%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 53% · 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
School pathway
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within Harvey SD 152. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
IAR + ISA 2024-25 . % Proficient (Levels 4-5)English Language Arts
31.0%
IL avg 51.0% . +11.5pp since 2023
Math
12.9%
IL avg 37.9% . +5.4pp since 2023
What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 31 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 13 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 12 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 5 points.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 31.0% | 12.9% |
| 2023-24 | 19.5% | 7.5% |
% 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
20.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
20.1%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+0.6pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 21% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 20% 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 Brooks Middle School
Brooks Middle School's state test result (20.7% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brooks Middle School this school | 455 | 89.0% | 20.7% |
| Kankakee Junior High School Kankakee | 501 | 90.6% | 21.3% |
| Rosa L Parks Middle School Dixmoor | 320 | 91.3% | 12.0% |
| Kennedy Middle School Rockford | 393 | 90.3% | 6.3% |
| Coolidge Middle School Phoenix | 460 | 99.3% | 29.6% |
| Memorial Jr High School Lansing | 854 | 99.2% | 27.1% |
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 Brooks Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Illinois | In Cook County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 20.7% | #518 of 578 | #100 of 116 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 12.9% | #562 of 640 ▲ 11 | #126 of 146 ▲ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 31.0% | #561 of 640 ▲ 17 | #128 of 146 ▲ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 455 | #323 of 691 | #90 of 148 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.5:1 | #528 of 558 | #128 of 138 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 52.4% | #237 of 560 | #63 of 138 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 89.0% | #41 of 581 | #23 of 117 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +11.8% | #42 of 127 | #15 of 40 |
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
455
-133 (-23%) vs 2020
-43% since 1990-91, when it was 794
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 | 455 | 26 | 17.5:1 | 89% (405) |
| 2023-24 | 452 | 25 | 18.1:1 | 76% (345) |
| 2022-23 | 487 | 25 | 19.5:1 | 80% (392) |
| 2020-21 | 588 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 407 | 31 | 13.1:1 | 100% (407) |
| 2015-16 | 423 | 32 | 13.2:1 | 97% (409) |
| 2010-11 | 478 | 40 | 11.9:1 | 92% (438) |
| 2000-01 | 645 | 36 | 17.9:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 794 | 49 | 16.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Brooks Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students up 12% (407 to 455); teachers down 16% (31 to 26).
About Brooks Middle School
Brooks Middle School is classified as a middle school. It is located in Harvey, Illinois. The school serves 455 students in grades 6 through 8 in 2024-25.
The district, Harvey SD 152, has 1,487 students enrolled across 5 schools.
Brooks Middle School's enrollment is 58% Black. Next come 38% Hispanic. That compares with about 22% Black among all Cook County residents. The chance that two students picked at random at Brooks Middle School belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 52%.
Federal staffing data show 26 full-time-equivalent teachers at Brooks Middle School and a ratio of 17.5:1. That ratio is over the 13.0:1 average for middle schools in Illinois. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility covers 89% of students. On average, public schools in Cook County report 66%.
In Illinois, Brooks Middle School is in the middle band of BeatsExpectations: 20.7% actual against a predicted 20.1%.
In the county around the school, Cook County, median household income is about $83,498, about 43% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 10%. A total of 1,406 public schools operate in Cook County, serving about 697,934 students.
The nearest other public school, Roosevelt Elementary School, is about 0.6 miles away. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. Compared with its nearest neighbors, Brooks Middle School ranks 6th of 9 on average proficiency.
NCES describes the area around Brooks Middle School as Suburb: Large, meaning in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
The student count in 2024-25 was 455, 23% below the 588 of 2020-21.
Topics for discussion here include sports tryouts, band and choir, and theater. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
Cook County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
5,182,090
Census ACS
Median income
$83,498
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
43%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
1,406
697,934 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Harvey SD 152
- Bryant Elementary SchoolElementary · 294 students
- Maya Angelou Elementary SchoolElementary · 271 students
- Holmes Elementary SchoolElementary · 270 students
- Whittier Elementary SchoolElementary · 197 students
- Riley Early Childhood CenterElementary
Other schools in Harvey
- Thornton Township High SchoolHigh · 1,697 students
- Taft SchoolElementary · 308 students
- Bryant Elementary SchoolElementary · 294 students
- Maya Angelou Elementary SchoolElementary · 271 students
- Holmes Elementary SchoolElementary · 270 students
- Whittier Elementary SchoolElementary · 197 students
Other Brooks Middle schools
One other US public school is named Brooks Middle. Brooks Middle School is the 2nd largest of the 2.
- Brooks Middle SchoolBolingbrook, IL · 850 students
Nearby schools
- Roosevelt Elementary School0.6 mi · 248
- Roosevelt Junior High School0.6 mi · 130
- Bryant Elementary School0.7 mi · 294
- Thornton Township High School0.8 mi · 1,697
- Coolidge Middle School1.0 mi · 460
- Park Elementary School1.1 mi · 197
Frequently asked questions
About Brooks Middle SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Brooks Middle School?
Brooks Middle School enrolls approximately 455 students in grades 06-08.
What age range does Brooks Middle School serve?
Brooks Middle School serves students from grade 06 through grade 08.
How many teachers does Brooks Middle School have?
Brooks Middle School employs 26 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 17.5:1.
What is the student diversity at Brooks Middle School?
Student demographics at Brooks Middle School are roughly 1% White, 38% Hispanic, 58% Black, 2% Asian, 1% Two or more.
What district is Brooks Middle School in?
Brooks Middle School is part of Harvey SD 152.
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