Enrollment
174
Middle
DISTRICT 207 · STATE 462
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·FOX RIVER GROVE CONS SD 3·NCES 171566005508
Fox River Grove Middle School
401 Orchard St, Fox River Grove, IL 60021 · (847) 516-5105 · McHenry County
GRADES 05–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL174 STUDENTS
C
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Scored higher than 26% of Illinois public middle schools
- B-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats 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
11.2:1
16 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.3:1 · STATE 13.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
21%
36 students
DISTRICT 22% · STATE 56%
Community
0
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 5 | 40 | 23% |
| Grade 6 | 45 | 26% |
| Grade 7 | 48 | 28% |
| Grade 8 | 41 | 24% |
Student demographics
36%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 39% · 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
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within Fox River Grove Cons SD 3. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
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IAR + ISA 2024-25 . % Proficient (Levels 4-5)English Language Arts
56.3%
IL avg 51.0% . +32.8pp since 2023
Math
33.9%
IL avg 37.9% . +13.7pp since 2023
What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 56 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 34 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 33 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 14 points.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 56.3% | 33.9% |
| 2023-24 | 23.5% | 20.2% |
% 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
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of IL schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
43.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
59.6%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-15.6pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 44% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 60% typical for Illinois schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
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 Fox River Grove Middle School
Fox River Grove Middle School's state test result (43.9% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fox River Grove Middle School this school | 174 | 20.7% | 43.9% |
| Hinckley-Big Rock Middle School Big Rock | 216 | 25.9% | 49.7% |
| Riverdale Middle School Port Byron | 254 | 15.7% | 54.7% |
| Rockridge Jr High School Taylor Ridge | 234 | 21.8% | 45.4% |
| Roanoke-Benson Jr High School Benson | 142 | 24.6% | 60.7% |
| Orion Middle School Orion | 244 | 19.3% | 56.7% |
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 Fox River Grove Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Illinois | In McHenry County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 43.9% | #284 of 578 | #13 of 17 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 33.9% | #305 of 640 ▲ 83 | #11 of 17 ▲ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 56.3% | #332 of 640 ▲ 219 | #11 of 17 ▲ 6 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 174 | #592 of 691 | #17 of 18 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 20.7% | #519 of 581 | #16 of 17 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -14.7% | #171 of 440 | #9 of 14 |
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
174
-4 (-2%) vs 2020
+47% since 1990-91, when it was 118
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 | 174 | 15.5 | 11.2:1 | 21% (36) |
| 2023-24 | 185 | 16.9 | 10.9:1 | 22% (41) |
| 2022-23 | 176 | 15.8 | 11.2:1 | 18% (31) |
| 2020-21 | 178 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 204 | 15.7 | 13.0:1 | 17% (34) |
| 2015-16 | 218 | 14 | 15.6:1 | 16% (35) |
| 2010-11 | 244 | 18 | 13.6:1 | 11% (26) |
| 2000-01 | 233 | 15 | 15.5:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 118 | 7 | 16.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Fox River Grove Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students down 15% (204 to 174); teachers down 1% (15.7 to 15.5).
About Fox River Grove Middle School
In Fox River Grove, Illinois, Fox River Grove Middle School is a very small middle school. It has an enrollment of 174 students in grades 5 through 8. Middle schools in Illinois average about 462 students, which makes this school 62% below average.
Fox River Grove Cons SD 3 (2 schools, 413 students) runs Fox River Grove Middle School.
About 78% of the student body at Fox River Grove Middle School is White. Other groups make up 16% Hispanic and 5% multiracial. McHenry County residents are about 80% White, a similar share. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 36%.
Its staff includes 15.5 full-time-equivalent teachers, for about 11.2 students per teacher. The average for middle schools in Illinois, 13.0:1, is higher. Fox River Grove Middle School has a free or reduced-price lunch rate of 21%. Across public schools in McHenry County, the average is 35%.
Fox River Grove Middle School earns a C on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 26% of Illinois public middle schools.
A school in Illinois with Fox River Grove Middle School's free or reduced-price lunch share would be expected to score about 59.6%. Fox River Grove Middle School scores 43.9%.
In the wider McHenry County area, the median household earns about $104,802 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 35% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 4%. Across McHenry County, 89 public schools serve about 50,123 students.
Algonquin Road Elementary School is about 0.9 miles away, making it the nearest public school. Other public schools within five miles number at least 8. Fox River Grove Middle School is 8th of 8 nearby schools by average proficiency rate.
Fox River Grove Middle School is coded as Suburb: Large in federal locale data.
In 2020-21, Fox River Grove Middle School enrolled 178; in 2024-25, 174.
Parents, students, and staff can share information on pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback here. Members of the school community can share what they know.
McHenry County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
312,591
Census ACS
Median income
$104,802
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
35%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
4%
Below federal line
Schools in county
89
50,123 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Fox River Grove Cons SD 3
- Algonquin Road Elementary SchoolElementary · 239 students
Other schools in Fox River Grove
- Algonquin Road Elementary SchoolElementary · 239 students
Nearby schools
- Algonquin Road Elementary School0.9 mi · 239
- Oak Knoll Early Childhood Center1.7 mi · 316
- Three Oaks School1.8 mi · 443
- Briargate Elementary School2.1 mi · 400
- Cary-Grove Community High School2.2 mi · 1,348
- Cary Jr High School2.6 mi · 761
Frequently asked questions
About Fox River Grove Middle SchoolHow large is Fox River Grove Middle School?
Fox River Grove Middle School enrolls approximately 174 students in grades 05-08.
What age range does Fox River Grove Middle School serve?
Fox River Grove Middle School serves students from grade 05 through grade 08.
How many teachers does Fox River Grove Middle School have?
Fox River Grove Middle School employs 16 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 11.2:1.
How diverse is Fox River Grove Middle School?
Fox River Grove Middle School reports a student body of 78% White, 16% Hispanic, 1% Black, 1% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Who oversees Fox River Grove Middle School?
Fox River Grove Middle School is overseen by Fox River Grove Cons SD 3 in McHenry County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.