Irving Middle School

As a moderately sized intermediate school in Maywood, Illinois, Irving Middle School enrolls 515 students from grades 5 through 8, one of the schools within Maywood-Melrose Park-Broadview 89.

Irving Middle School is one of 9 schools operated by Maywood-Melrose Park-Broadview 89, a district that enrolls 4,081 students overall.

In terms of who attends, Irving Middle School logs that the largest single group is Black, at 63% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school records 34% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 22% Black, putting the school's mix noticeably more Black than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Irving Middle School shows 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.6:1. The state averages about 13.0:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 64% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Irving Middle School falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 34.4%; this one comes in at 17.8%, -16.6 points off the demographic line.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Cook County put median household earnings sit near $83,498, 43% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. In all, Cook County runs 1406 public schools (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students), of which Irving Middle School is one.

The closest other public school is Washington Dual Language Academy, roughly 0.4 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Irving Middle School. On composite proficiency, Irving Middle School comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 26.2%.

Irving Middle School operates from a suburban location.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Irving Middle School has contracted 17%, going from 619 students in 2018 to 515 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share climbed from 29% to 34%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 14.6:1 in 2018 to 12.6:1 today.

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