Germantown Hills Middle School
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Test scores
IAR + ISA 2024-25 . % Proficient (Levels 4-5)What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 90 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 70 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 5 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 10 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 79% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 62% typical for Illinois schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 18 points, placing it in Illinois's top 10%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Germantown Hills Middle School
Germantown Hills Middle School is a 6-8 campus of modestly sized scale in Germantown Hills, Illinois, run under Germantown Hills SD 69, teacheing 374 students in grades 5 through 8.
Germantown Hills Middle School is one of 2 schools operated by Germantown Hills SD 69, a district that works with 813 students overall.
For racial and ethnic makeup, Germantown Hills Middle School reports that 88% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 6% Hispanic, 3% multiracial.
On the resource side, Staff filings list 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.8:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 13.0:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 17% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Woodford County (around 29%), the school's rate is south of typical.
After controlling for student poverty, Germantown Hills Middle School sits in the top 10% of Illinois schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 61.8%; actual is 79.4%, +17.6 points clear of the demographic baseline.
Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Woodford County put median household income runs about $91,483, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Germantown Hills Middle School is one of 32 public schools in Woodford County (combined enrollment of about 6,338 students).
Nearest neighbor: Germantown Hills Elementary Sch, around 0.0 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Germantown Hills Middle School at 1st of 9; the average score across the group is 58.5%.
The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.
Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 4%: 391 students in 2018 compared to 374 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 94% to 88%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 15.1:1 in 2018 to 13.8:1 today.
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