Hamlin Upper Grade Center

The public middle school Hamlin Upper Grade Center is located in Alsip, Illinois. The school covers grades 6 through 8 and reported 182 students in 2024-25. On average, middle schools in Illinois enroll around 462, and this school is 61% below that mark.

Hamlin Upper Grade Center is a school in Atwood Heights SD 125. The district has 3 schools and 589 students.

Of every 100 students at Hamlin Upper Grade Center, about 54 are Hispanic. Other reported shares: 29% White, 14% Black, and 3% multiracial. Cook County's residents are about 27% Hispanic, 27 points below the school's share. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Hamlin Upper Grade Center scores 61%.

Hamlin Upper Grade Center reported 13 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25, a ratio of 14.0:1. The school's 14.0:1 compares with an average of 13.0:1 for middle schools in Illinois. Roughly 55% of students at Hamlin Upper Grade Center can receive free or reduced-price lunch. The gap from the 66% average for public schools in Cook County is 11 points.

The BeatsExpectations prediction for Hamlin Upper Grade Center is 39.5%, and its average proficiency rate across its state test results is 39.4%.

For Cook County, Census Bureau data show the median household earns about $83,498 a year, 43% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Public schools in Cook County number 1,406, with about 697,934 students.

A public school about 0.9 miles away, George Washington Elementary School, is the closest to Hamlin Upper Grade Center. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. Hamlin Upper Grade Center comes in 3rd of 8 nearby schools on average proficiency.

In the federal locale system, Hamlin Upper Grade Center is coded Suburb: Large, for schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.

Enrollment fell by 13% across 4 years, from 209 in 2020-21 to 182 in 2024-25.

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