Everett F Kerr Middle School

Everett F Kerr Middle School operates as a tight-knit intermediate school in Blue Island, Illinois, part of Cook County SD 130. Current enrollment sits at 304 students spanning grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Illinois's public schools average about 462 students each, so Everett F Kerr Middle School sits 34% smaller than that benchmark.

Cook County SD 130 runs 11 schools in total, collectively educating 2,950 students. Everett F Kerr Middle School is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Everett F Kerr Middle School logs that nearly all students (80%) are Hispanic. Beyond that, the school records 12% Black, 7% White. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 27%.

Looking at school resources, The school reports having 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.4:1. The state averages around 13.0:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 82% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is north of Cook County's rate of about 66%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Everett F Kerr Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 24.2%, the actual is 32.2%, a residual of +8.0 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Cook County indicate median household income runs about $83,498, roughly 43% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Everett F Kerr Middle School is one of 1406 public schools in Cook County (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students).

Whittier Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Everett F Kerr Middle School ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 27.8%.

The school occupies a residential site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 11%: 343 students in 2018 compared to 304 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment edged down from 16% to 12% over that span.

On the community side, recent activity here tends to focus on open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.