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Enrollment
1,142
Middle
DISTRICT 869 · STATE 462
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CUSD 300·NCES 170855004910
Carpentersville Middle School
100 Cleveland Ave, Carpentersville, IL 60110 · (847) 426-1380 · Kane County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL1,142 STUDENTS
D
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Scored higher than 6% of Illinois public middle schools
- FTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-Beats 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
13.3:1
86 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.3:1 · STATE 13.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
86%
987 students
DISTRICT 54% · 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 | 336 | 29% |
| Grade 7 | 409 | 36% |
| Grade 8 | 397 | 35% |
Student demographics
23%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 62% · 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
20.2%
IL avg 51.0% . +2.6pp since 2023
Math
8.0%
IL avg 37.9% . +1.8pp since 2023
What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 20 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 8 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 3 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 2 points.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 20.2% | 8.0% |
| 2023-24 | 17.6% | 6.2% |
% 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
14.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
21.6%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-7.0pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 15% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 22% 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 Carpentersville Middle School
Carpentersville Middle School's state test result (14.6% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carpentersville Middle School this school | 1,142 | 86.4% | 14.6% |
| Richardson Middle School Chicago | 844 | 87.8% | 26.1% |
| Round Lake Middle School Round Lake Heights | 783 | 85.8% | 19.4% |
| Lincoln Middle School Berwyn | 793 | 83.4% | 43.7% |
| Magee Middle School Round Lake | 642 | 89.3% | 17.5% |
| Washington Middle School Lyons | 659 | 80.0% | 26.6% |
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 Carpentersville Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Illinois | In Kane County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 14.6% | #557 of 578 | #22 of 23 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 8.0% | #607 of 640 ▼ 18 | #24 of 26 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 20.2% | #621 of 640 ▼ 25 | #25 of 26 ▼ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,142 | #12 of 691 | #4 of 26 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.3:1 | #307 of 558 | #12 of 25 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 22.8% | #455 of 560 | #23 of 25 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 86.4% | #48 of 581 | #1 of 23 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -9.3% | #269 of 440 | #19 of 21 |
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
1,142
-183 (-14%) vs 2020
+2% since 1990-91, when it was 1,116
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 | 1,142 | 86 | 13.3:1 | 86% (987) |
| 2023-24 | 1,169 | 88.3 | 13.2:1 | 80% (933) |
| 2022-23 | 1,177 | 89.2 | 13.2:1 | 74% (874) |
| 2020-21 | 1,325 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 1,259 | 96 | 13.1:1 | 82% (1,029) |
| 2015-16 | 823 | 57 | 14.4:1 | 83% (686) |
| 2010-11 | 660 | 48 | 13.8:1 | 91% (602) |
| 2000-01 | 1,191 | 80 | 14.9:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 1,116 | 60 | 18.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Carpentersville Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students down 9% (1,259 to 1,142); teachers down 10% (96 to 86).
About Carpentersville Middle School
Carpentersville Middle School is a public middle-grades school in Carpentersville, Illinois. Grades offered run from 6 through 8, with 1,142 students enrolled. The average among middle schools in Illinois is roughly 462 students; this school is 147% larger than that.
CUSD 300 has a total of 27 schools and 20,705 students, Carpentersville Middle School among them.
Hispanic students make up 87% of enrollment at Carpentersville Middle School. Next come 5% Black and 5% White. That compares with about 33% Hispanic among all Kane County residents. Carpentersville Middle School's diversity index is 23%, against a US figure of 70%.
Federal records show a student-to-teacher ratio of 13.3:1 at Carpentersville Middle School, with 86 full-time-equivalent teachers. That is close to the 13.0:1 average for middle schools in Illinois. Free and reduced-price lunch eligibility, a common measure of family income, is 86%. It compares with 48% for public schools in Kane County.
Measured against Illinois public middle schools, Carpentersville Middle School receives a D. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
Carpentersville Middle School scores 14.6% on state tests, averaged across results. The predicted figure, based on its student poverty level, is 21.6%.
According to the American Community Survey, in Kane County, the median household income is $103,163, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 38% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 6%. There are 167 public schools in Kane County, enrolling about 87,252 students in all.
The closest public school to Carpentersville Middle School is Delacey Family Educ Center, about 0.2 miles away. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. In a group of 8 nearby schools with scores, Carpentersville Middle School ranks 8th on average proficiency.
The school's setting, by NCES definition, is Suburb: Large: in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment declined 14% from its 2020-21 level of 1,325.
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Kane County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
517,255
Census ACS
Median income
$103,163
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
38%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
167
87,252 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in CUSD 300
- Dundee-Crown High SchoolHigh · 2,573 students
- Harry D Jacobs High SchoolHigh · 2,056 students
- Hampshire High SchoolHigh · 2,046 students
- Westfield Community SchoolElementary · 1,287 students
- Dundee Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,144 students
- Hampshire Middle SchoolMiddle · 821 students
Other schools in Carpentersville
- Dundee-Crown High SchoolHigh · 2,573 students
- Liberty Elementary SchoolElementary · 749 students
- Lakewood SchoolElementary · 590 students
- Parkview Elementary SchoolElementary · 552 students
- Meadowdale Elementary SchoolElementary · 421 students
- Golfview Elementary SchoolElementary · 401 students
Nearby schools
- Delacey Family Educ Center0.2 mi · 210
- Parkview Elementary School0.3 mi · 552
- Lakewood School0.8 mi · 590
- Dundee Highlands Elementary School1.0 mi · 396
- Golfview Elementary School1.4 mi · 401
- Meadowdale Elementary School1.4 mi · 421
Frequently asked questions
About Carpentersville Middle SchoolHow many students attend Carpentersville Middle School?
Carpentersville Middle School enrolls approximately 1,142 students in grades 06-08.
Is Carpentersville Middle School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Carpentersville Middle School is a middle school covering grades 06-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Carpentersville Middle School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Carpentersville Middle School is approximately 13.3:1 (86 FTE teachers).
How diverse is Carpentersville Middle School?
Carpentersville Middle School reports a student body of 5% White, 87% Hispanic, 5% Black, 1% Asian, 1% Two or more.
What district is Carpentersville Middle School in?
Carpentersville Middle School is part of CUSD 300.
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