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Enrollment
1,002
Middle
DISTRICT 570 · STATE 462
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CRETE MONEE CUSD 201U·NCES 171125001347
Crete-Monee Middle School
635 Olmstead Ln, University Park, IL 60484 · (708) 367-2400 · Will County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE41-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL1,002 STUDENTS
D
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Scored higher than 13% of Illinois public middle schools
- C-Test 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
10.7:1
94 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.4:1 · STATE 13.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
65%
651 students
DISTRICT 66% · 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 | 298 | 30% |
| Grade 7 | 346 | 35% |
| Grade 8 | 355 | 35% |
| Grade 9 | 3 | 0% |
Student demographics
58%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 60% · 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
Students here typically continue to
Crete-Monee Middle School→Crete-Monee High School
Based on grade levels within Crete Monee CUSD 201U. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
IAR + ISA 2024-25 . % Proficient (Levels 4-5)English Language Arts
41.5%
IL avg 51.0% . +10.9pp since 2023
Math
13.8%
IL avg 37.9% . +4.6pp since 2023
What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 42 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 14 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 11 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 5 points.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 41.5% | 13.8% |
| 2023-24 | 30.6% | 9.2% |
% 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
27.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
34.0%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-6.9pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 27% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 34% 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 Crete-Monee Middle School
Crete-Monee Middle School's state test result (27.1% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Crete-Monee Middle School this school | 1,002 | 65.0% | 27.1% |
| Irving Middle School Maywood | 515 | 64.3% | 17.8% |
| Parker Junior High School Flossmoor | 822 | 54.3% | 40.4% |
| Jefferson Middle School Champaign | 711 | 59.5% | 33.3% |
| West Middle School Rockford | 793 | 79.3% | 16.2% |
| Heritage Middle School Lansing | 500 | 59.4% | 30.4% |
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 Crete-Monee Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Illinois | In Will County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 27.1% | #466 of 578 | #35 of 39 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 13.8% | #551 of 640 ▼ 2 | #41 of 44 ▲ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 41.5% | #481 of 640 ▲ 11 | #40 of 44 ▲ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,002 | #29 of 691 | #2 of 44 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.7:1 | #70 of 558 | #5 of 44 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 58.1% | #176 of 560 | #19 of 44 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 65.0% | #135 of 581 | #5 of 39 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -6.0% | #333 of 440 | #30 of 36 |
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
1,002
-23 (-2%) vs 2020
+44% since 1990-91, when it was 698
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 | 1,002 | 94 | 10.7:1 | 65% (651) |
| 2023-24 | 983 | 88.3 | 11.1:1 | 100% (979) |
| 2022-23 | 965 | 65 | 14.8:1 | 100% (963) |
| 2020-21 | 1,025 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 1,066 | 79.9 | 13.3:1 | 70% (751) |
| 2015-16 | 751 | 45 | 16.7:1 | 69% (515) |
| 2010-11 | 732 | 45 | 16.3:1 | 67% (488) |
| 2000-01 | 679 | 41 | 16.6:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 698 | 37 | 18.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Crete-Monee Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students down 6% (1,066 to 1,002); teachers up 18% (79.9 to 94).
About Crete-Monee Middle School
Crete-Monee Middle School is a high-enrollment middle-grades school in Illinois, located in University Park. The school had 1,002 students in grades 6 through 8 in 2024-25. An average school in this group (middle schools in Illinois) has about 462 students.
Crete Monee CUSD 201U has 8 schools and 4,562 students, and Crete-Monee Middle School is one of those schools.
Black students account for 59% of enrollment at Crete-Monee Middle School. Smaller groups are 22% Hispanic, 13% White, and 5% multiracial. For comparison, the population of Will County is roughly 12% Black. Crete-Monee Middle School has a diversity index of 58%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
With 94 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25, the ratio at Crete-Monee Middle School was 10.7:1. Among middle schools in Illinois, the typical ratio is 13.0:1. Crete-Monee Middle School's free or reduced-price lunch eligibility rate is 65%. Across public schools in Will County, the average is 44%.
The allk12 Grade for Crete-Monee Middle School is D. Compared with Illinois public middle schools, the school scored higher than 13% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
On the allk12 BeatsExpectations measure, Crete-Monee Middle School is 6.9 points below the average proficiency rate on state tests predicted for its free or reduced-price lunch share: 27.1% actual, 34.0% predicted. That is outside both the top and bottom 10% in Illinois.
Will County has these Census figures: median household income is about $109,984, about 38% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 6%. Crete-Monee Middle School is among the 209 public schools in Will County.
The next-closest public school is Coretta Scott King Magnet School, about 0.6 miles away. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of Crete-Monee Middle School. Of 8 schools in the immediate area with test results, Crete-Monee Middle School ranks 4th on average proficiency.
For locale, NCES codes Crete-Monee Middle School as Rural: Fringe.
Enrollment in 2024-25 was 1,002, close to the 1,025 recorded in 2020-21.
The Crete-Monee Middle School community page is open for posts about enrollment questions, class placement, and PTA news. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.
Will County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
701,462
Census ACS
Median income
$109,984
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
38%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
209
113,008 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Crete Monee CUSD 201U
- Crete-Monee High SchoolHigh · 1,480 students
- Balmoral Elementary SchoolElementary · 472 students
- Crete Elementary SchoolElementary · 381 students
- Monee Elementary SchoolElementary · 373 students
- Talala Elementary SchoolElementary · 305 students
- Coretta Scott King Magnet SchoolElementary · 293 students
Other schools in University Park
- Coretta Scott King Magnet SchoolElementary · 293 students
Nearby schools
- Coretta Scott King Magnet School0.6 mi · 293
- Crete-Monee High School1.9 mi · 1,480
- Balmoral Elementary School2.1 mi · 472
- Crete-Monee Early Childhood Cntr2.1 mi · 256
- Monee Elementary School2.5 mi · 373
- Crete Elementary School2.9 mi · 381
Frequently asked questions
About Crete-Monee Middle SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Crete-Monee Middle School?
Crete-Monee Middle School enrolls approximately 1,002 students in grades 06-08.
What age range does Crete-Monee Middle School serve?
Crete-Monee Middle School serves students from grade 06 through grade 08.
How many students per teacher at Crete-Monee Middle School?
Approximately 10.7:1 students per teacher at Crete-Monee Middle School.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Crete-Monee Middle School?
At Crete-Monee Middle School, the student body is approximately 13% White, 22% Hispanic, 59% Black, 0% Asian, 5% Two or more.
What district is Crete-Monee Middle School in?
Crete-Monee Middle School is part of Crete Monee CUSD 201U.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.