Indian Trail Jr High School

Indian Trail Jr High School operates as a sprawling 6-8 campus in Addison, Illinois, one of the schools within Addison SD 4. Current enrollment sits at 1,111 students spanning grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 140% above the state mean of about 462.

Indian Trail Jr High School is one of 9 schools operated by Addison SD 4, a district that works with 3,389 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Indian Trail Jr High School reports that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 71% of enrollment. Other groups include 20% White, 3% Asian, 3% Native American, 2% Black. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 16%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Indian Trail Jr High School shows 90 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.3:1. The state averages about 13.0:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 72% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, DuPage County runs at roughly 34%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Indian Trail Jr High School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 29.8%; this one delivers 32.8%.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (DuPage County) logs that median household income runs about $112,096, 52% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Across DuPage County's 277 public schools (combined enrollment of about 138,557 students), Indian Trail Jr High School is one campus in the mix.

Army Trail Elem School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Indian Trail Jr High School. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Indian Trail Jr High School ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 34.0%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 18%: 1,355 students in 2018 compared to 1,111 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 16.1:1 in 2018 to 12.3:1 today.

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