Fox River Grove Middle School

Fox River Grove Middle School is one of the micro-enrollment intermediate schools in Fox River Grove, Illinois, overseen by Fox River Grove Cons SD 3, with 174 students on its rolls from grades 5 through 8. By comparison, Illinois's public schools average about 462 students each, so Fox River Grove Middle School sits 62% smaller than that benchmark.

Fox River Grove Cons SD 3 runs 2 schools in total, collectively educating 413 students. Fox River Grove Middle School is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Fox River Grove Middle School logs that White students make up the majority at 78%. Beyond that, the school shows 16% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, On paper, Fox River Grove Middle School has 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.2:1. The state averages around 13.0:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 21% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against McHenry County (around 35%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Fox River Grove Middle School is in the bottom 10% of Illinois public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 59.6%; Fox River Grove Middle School posts 43.9%, -15.6 points below that line.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (McHenry County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $104,802 per year, 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. Fox River Grove Middle School is one of 89 public schools in McHenry County (combined enrollment of about 50,123 students).

Algonquin Road Elem School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Fox River Grove Middle School. On composite proficiency, Fox River Grove Middle School comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 55.5%.

The campus sits in a residential setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Fox River Grove Middle School has contracted 15%, going from 204 students in 2018 to 174 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 85% to 78% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 13.0:1 in 2018 to 11.2:1 today.

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