Dundee Middle School

Dundee Middle School is a 6-8 campus of expansive scale in Dundee, Illinois, part of CUSD 300, educateing 1,144 students in grades 6 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 462 students per school, that is 148% bigger than typical.

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

Looking at the student body, Dundee Middle School logs that 54% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 30% Hispanic, 8% Asian, 4% Black, 4% multiracial.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 74 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.5:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.0:1 average. Roughly 37% of students at Dundee Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Kane County runs at roughly 48%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Dundee Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.3%, the actual is 53.1%, a residual of +2.8 points.

In the surrounding community, Kane County reports that the typical household earns roughly $103,163 per year, 38% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Dundee Middle School is one of 167 public schools in Kane County (combined enrollment of about 87,252 students).

Nearest neighbor: Liberty Elementary School, around 1.6 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Dundee Middle School. On composite proficiency, Dundee Middle School comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 45.5%.

Dundee Middle School operates from an outer-ring location.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Dundee Middle School has climbed 30%, going from 880 students in 2018 to 1,144 in 2025.

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