Frederick School

Set in Grayslake, Illinois, Frederick School is an average-sized middle school, part of Grayslake CCSD 46. It teaches 667 students across grades 5 through 6. That puts it 44% bigger than the typical public school in Illinois, which averages around 462 students.

Grayslake CCSD 46 comprises 9 schools with combined enrollment of 3,650 students; Frederick School is among them.

Looking at the student body, Frederick School records that the most-represented group is White (53%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 32% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 5% Black, 4% Asian. By comparison, Lake County as a whole is about 61% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school currently runs with 46 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.5:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.0:1, putting Frederick School higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 35% of students at Frederick School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is south of Lake County's rate of about 54%.

With demographic context factored in, Frederick School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 51.4%; this one delivers 47.7%.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Lake County indicate median household earnings sit near $110,416, 48% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Across Lake County's 214 public schools (combined enrollment of about 118,032 students), Frederick School is one campus in the mix.

Grayslake Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Frederick School comes 4th of 5 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 55.4%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Frederick School has ticked up 4%, going from 640 students in 2018 to 667 in 2025.

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