Holmes Jr High School

As a mid-sized junior high in Mount Prospect, Illinois, Holmes Jr High School educates 459 students from grades 6 through 8, one of the schools within Comm Cons SD 59.

Across the 15 schools in Comm Cons SD 59 (5,869 students total), Holmes Jr High School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, Holmes Jr High School logs that the largest single group is Hispanic at 42%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest breaks down as 34% White, 14% Asian, 6% Black, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Cook County as a whole is about 27% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Holmes Jr High School has 49 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 9.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.0:1, putting Holmes Jr High School tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 63% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Holmes Jr High School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 35.4%; this one delivers 42.8%.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Cook County indicate the typical household earns roughly $83,498 per year, roughly 43% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Holmes Jr High School is one of 1406 public schools in Cook County (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students).

The Early Learning Center is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Holmes Jr High School. On composite proficiency, Holmes Jr High School comes 3rd of 6 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 46.7%.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 44%: 818 students in 2018 compared to 459 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 14.6:1 in 2018 to 9.4:1 in 2025.

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