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Enrollment
735
Middle
DISTRICT 704 · STATE 462
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BALL CHATHAM CUSD 5·NCES 170492000185
Glenwood Middle School
595 Chatham Rd, Chatham, IL 62629 · (217) 483-2481 · Sangamon County
GRADES 07–08MIDDLE22-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL735 STUDENTS
C+
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Scored higher than 44% of Illinois public middle schools
- BTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-Beats 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
17.2:1
43 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 17.7:1 · STATE 13.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
23%
167 students
DISTRICT 25% · STATE 56%
Community
5
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 | 2 | 0% |
| Grade 7 | 359 | 49% |
| Grade 8 | 373 | 51% |
| Grade 10 | 1 | 0% |
Student demographics
44%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 42% · 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
Students here typically continue to
Glenwood Middle School→Glenwood High School
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within Ball Chatham CUSD 5. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
IAR + ISA 2024-25 . % Proficient (Levels 4-5)English Language Arts
60.4%
IL avg 51.0% . +11.5pp since 2023
Math
40.4%
IL avg 37.9% . +7.7pp since 2023
What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 60 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 40 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 12 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 8 points.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 60.4% | 40.4% |
| 2023-24 | 48.9% | 32.7% |
% 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
51.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
58.4%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-7.4pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 51% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 58% typical for Illinois schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Illinois's top nor bottom 10%.
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 Glenwood Middle School
Glenwood Middle School's state test result (51.0% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Glenwood Middle School this school | 735 | 22.7% | 51.0% |
| Glenwood Intermediate School Chatham | 672 | 22.5% | 52.8% |
| Old Quarry Middle School Lemont | 856 | 19.7% | 74.2% |
| Heineman Middle School Algonquin | 724 | 21.3% | 60.6% |
| Edison Middle School Wheaton | 635 | 21.1% | 68.0% |
| Liberty Middle School Edwardsville | 888 | 19.3% | 55.8% |
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 Glenwood Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Illinois | In Sangamon County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 51.0% | #184 of 578 | #8 of 16 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 40.4% | #229 of 640 ▼ 21 | #8 of 17 ▼ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 60.4% | #287 of 640 ▲ 13 | #9 of 17 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 735 | #116 of 691 | #1 of 17 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.2:1 | #523 of 558 | #12 of 13 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 44.2% | #301 of 560 | #6 of 13 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 22.7% | #503 of 581 | #12 of 16 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -1.1% | #423 of 440 | #13 of 13 |
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
735
-9 (-1%) vs 2020
+10% since 1990-91, when it was 670
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 | 735 | 42.8 | 17.2:1 | 23% (167) |
| 2023-24 | 771 | 45.5 | 16.9:1 | 24% (187) |
| 2022-23 | 753 | 43.5 | 17.3:1 | 25% (189) |
| 2020-21 | 744 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 743 | 39.5 | 18.8:1 | 21% (157) |
| 2015-16 | 709 | 39 | 18.2:1 | 19% (137) |
| 2010-11 | 976 | 65 | 15.0:1 | 16% (155) |
| 2000-01 | 910 | 46 | 19.8:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 670 | 33 | 20.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Glenwood Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students down 1% (743 to 735); teachers up 8% (39.5 to 42.8).
About Glenwood Middle School
Glenwood Middle School is a public high-enrollment middle school in Chatham, Illinois. The school enrolls 735 students in grades 7 through 8. On average, middle schools in Illinois enroll around 462, and this school is 59% bigger than that mark.
Ball Chatham CUSD 5 has 6 schools; together they serve 4,516 students.
The student body at Glenwood Middle School is 73% White. After that, the student body is 11% multiracial, 6% Asian, 5% Black, and 4% Hispanic. A diversity index of 44% means there is a 44% chance two randomly chosen students at Glenwood Middle School are from different groups.
The student-to-teacher ratio is 17.2:1. The school has 42.8 full-time-equivalent teachers. Across middle schools in Illinois, the average ratio is 13.0:1. Federal data show 23% of students (167) are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. That is 25 points below the 48% average for public schools in Sangamon County.
On the allk12 Grade, Glenwood Middle School lands at C+, ahead of 44% of Illinois public middle schools.
Glenwood Middle School is 7.4 points below its predicted average proficiency rate across its state test results (51.0% versus 58.4%), which places it in neither the top nor the bottom 10% in Illinois.
The school is in Sangamon County, where median household income comes to about $75,357, 37% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 9% of people live in poverty. Sangamon County's 77 public schools enroll about 27,345 students and include Glenwood Middle School.
Glenwood Intermediate School sits about 0.2 miles from Glenwood Middle School. There are 6 other public schools within five miles. Glenwood Middle School places 5th of 8 on proficiency among the closest schools that report scores.
The National Center for Education Statistics classifies the school's location as Suburb: Mid-size, meaning it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
Federal data show 744 students in 2020-21 and 735 in 2024-25, a difference of under 3%.
This page is set up for the Glenwood Middle School community to discuss homework, tutoring, and testing dates. Current and former families are welcome to add their experience.
Sangamon County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
194,947
Census ACS
Median income
$75,357
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
37%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
9%
Below federal line
Schools in county
77
27,345 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Ball Chatham CUSD 5
- Glenwood High SchoolHigh · 1,484 students
- Glenwood Intermediate SchoolMiddle · 672 students
- Glenwood Elementary SchoolElementary · 573 students
- Ball Elementary SchoolElementary · 552 students
- Chatham Elementary SchoolElementary · 500 students
Other schools in Chatham
- Glenwood High SchoolHigh · 1,484 students
- Glenwood Intermediate SchoolMiddle · 672 students
- Glenwood Elementary SchoolElementary · 573 students
- Ball Elementary SchoolElementary · 552 students
- Chatham Elementary SchoolElementary · 500 students
Other Glenwood Middle schools
3 other US public schools in 4 states are named Glenwood Middle. Glenwood Middle School is the largest of the 4.
- Glenwood Middle SchoolFindlay, OH · 579 students
- Glenwood MiddleGlenwood, MD · 494 students
- Glenwood Middle SchoolGlenwood, IA · 453 students
Nearby schools
- Glenwood Intermediate School0.2 mi · 672
- Ball Elementary School1.7 mi · 552
- Glenwood High School1.9 mi · 1,484
- Glenwood Elementary School2.1 mi · 573
- Chatham Elementary School2.7 mi · 500
- Edwin A Lee Elementary School4.6 mi · 204
Frequently asked questions
About Glenwood Middle SchoolHow large is Glenwood Middle School?
Glenwood Middle School enrolls approximately 735 students in grades 07-08.
What grades does Glenwood Middle School serve?
Glenwood Middle School serves grades 07-08.
How many teachers does Glenwood Middle School have?
Glenwood Middle School employs 43 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 17.2:1.
How diverse is Glenwood Middle School?
Glenwood Middle School reports a student body of 73% White, 4% Hispanic, 5% Black, 6% Asian, 11% Two or more.
What district is Glenwood Middle School in?
Glenwood Middle School is part of Ball Chatham CUSD 5.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.