Carpentersville Middle School

Set in Carpentersville, Illinois, Carpentersville Middle School is a heavily attended 6-8 campus, overseen by CUSD 300. It teaches 1,142 students across grades 6 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 462 students per school, that is 147% larger than typical.

Within CUSD 300, which oversees 27 schools and 20,705 students, Carpentersville Middle School is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Carpentersville Middle School logs that 87% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Other groups include 5% Black, 5% White. The wider county runs roughly 33% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Carpentersville Middle School shows 86 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.3:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 86% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Kane County runs at roughly 48%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Carpentersville Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 21.6%, the actual is 14.6%, a residual of -7.0 points.

In the area at large, Kane County reports that the typical household earns roughly $103,163 per year, about 38% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Across Kane County's 167 public schools (combined enrollment of about 87,252 students), Carpentersville Middle School is one campus in the mix.

Delacey Family Educ Ctr is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Carpentersville Middle School at 8th of 8; the average score across the group is 27.8%.

Carpentersville Middle School operates from a suburban location.

Looking at the recent track record. Carpentersville Middle School's enrollment has contracted 9% since 2018, when it stood at 1,259 (now 1,142). The Hispanic share of enrollment rose from 82% to 87% over that span.

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