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Enrollment
515
Middle
DISTRICT 599 · STATE 462
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MAYWOOD-MELROSE PARK-BROADVIEW 89·NCES 172511006426
Irving Middle School
805 S 17th Ave, Maywood, IL 60153 · (708) 450-2015 · Cook County
GRADES 05–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL515 STUDENTS
F
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 2% of Illinois public middle schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- FBeats 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
12.6:1
41 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.5:1 · STATE 13.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
64%
331 students
DISTRICT 58% · 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 6 | 160 | 31% |
| Grade 7 | 172 | 33% |
| Grade 8 | 183 | 36% |
Student demographics
49%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 45% · 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
Test scores
IAR + ISA 2024-25 . % Proficient (Levels 4-5)English Language Arts
28.2%
IL avg 51.0% . +5.7pp since 2023
Math
9.9%
IL avg 37.9% . +2.7pp since 2023
What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 28 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 10 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 6 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 3 points.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 28.2% | 9.9% |
| 2023-24 | 22.5% | 7.2% |
% 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
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of IL schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
17.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
34.4%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-16.6pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 18% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 34% typical for Illinois schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
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 Irving Middle School
Irving Middle School's state test result (17.8% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Irving Middle School this school | 515 | 64.3% | 17.8% |
| Heritage Middle School Lansing | 500 | 59.4% | 30.4% |
| Wentworth Jr High School Calumet City | 302 | 56.6% | 20.1% |
| Crete-Monee Middle School University Park | 1,002 | 65.0% | 27.1% |
| Calumet Elementary School Calumet Park | 316 | 56.0% | 18.6% |
| Colin Powell Middle School Matteson | 564 | 68.3% | 21.6% |
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 Irving Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Illinois | In Cook County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 17.8% | #536 of 578 | #106 of 116 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 9.9% | #594 of 640 ▼ 19 | #135 of 146 ▼ 5 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 28.2% | #581 of 640 ▼ 26 | #135 of 146 ▼ 11 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 515 | #276 of 691 | #75 of 148 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.6:1 | #240 of 558 | #77 of 138 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 48.7% | #274 of 560 | #75 of 138 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 64.3% | #143 of 581 | #55 of 117 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -16.8% | #140 of 440 | #35 of 97 |
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
515
-87 (-14%) vs 2020
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 | 515 | 41 | 12.6:1 | 64% (331) |
| 2023-24 | 496 | 42 | 11.8:1 | 64% (319) |
| 2022-23 | 541 | 42.2 | 12.8:1 | 62% (335) |
| 2020-21 | 602 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 619 | 42.5 | 14.6:1 | 70% (431) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Irving Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students down 17% (619 to 515); teachers down 4% (42.5 to 41).
About Irving Middle School
Irving Middle School is a mid-sized middle school in Maywood, Illinois, one of the schools in Maywood-Melrose Park-Broadview 89. It reports enrollment of 515 students in grades 5 through 8.
Maywood-Melrose Park-Broadview 89 is the district for Irving Middle School. It has 9 schools and 4,081 students.
Of every 100 students at Irving Middle School, about 63 are Black. It is also 34% Hispanic and 3% multiracial. Cook County's residents are about 22% Black, 41 points below the school's share. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Irving Middle School scores 49%.
Its staff includes 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, for about 12.6 students per teacher. The average ratio among middle schools in Illinois is similar, at 13.0:1. Roughly 64% of students at Irving Middle School can receive free or reduced-price lunch. The figure for public schools in Cook County is close, at 66%.
Among Illinois public middle schools, Irving Middle School outscored 2%, which works out to an F on the allk12 Grade.
After accounting for student poverty, Irving Middle School is in the bottom 10% of Illinois schools. Its average proficiency rate across its state test results of 17.8% is 16.6 points below the 34.4% predicted for its lunch-eligibility share.
Cook County is the school's county. There, median household income comes to about $83,498, 43% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Counting Irving Middle School, Cook County has 1,406 public schools.
About 0.4 miles separate Irving Middle School from the closest public school, Washington Dual Language Academy. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. Local comparison: Irving Middle School ranks 7th of 9 nearby schools, at 17.8% versus a 26.2% average.
In the federal locale system, Irving Middle School 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.
By 2024-25, enrollment had dropped to 515, from 602 in 2020-21.
The Irving Middle School discussion page is a place for open houses, carpools, and field trips. You can also rate the school on this page.
Cook County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
5,182,090
Census ACS
Median income
$83,498
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
43%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
1,406
697,934 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Maywood-Melrose Park-Broadview 89
- Stevenson Middle SchoolMiddle · 682 students
- Melrose Park Elementary SchoolElementary · 602 students
- Lincoln Elementary SchoolElementary · 431 students
- Garfield Elementary SchoolElementary · 411 students
- Jane Addams Elementary SchoolElementary · 385 students
- Emerson Elementary SchoolElementary · 364 students
Other schools in Maywood
- Proviso East High SchoolHigh · 1,663 students
- Lincoln Elementary SchoolElementary · 431 students
- Garfield Elementary SchoolElementary · 411 students
- Emerson Elementary SchoolElementary · 364 students
- Washington Dual Language AcademyElementary · 346 students
- ALOP Academic Learning ProgramHigh
Other Irving Middle schools
4 other US public schools in 5 states are named Irving Middle. Irving Middle School is the 5th largest of the 5.
- Irving MiddleSpringfield, VA · 1,204 students
- IRVING MIDDLE SCHOOLLINCOLN, NE · 795 students
- Irving Middle SchoolNorman, OK · 727 students
- IRVING MIDDLE SCHOOLPOCATELLO, ID · 702 students
Nearby schools
- Washington Dual Language Academy0.4 mi · 346
- Garfield Elementary School0.6 mi · 411
- Roosevelt Middle School0.7 mi · 614
- Thurgood Marshall Elementary School0.7 mi · 229
- Roosevelt Elementary School0.8 mi · 345
- Emerson Elementary School0.9 mi · 364
Frequently asked questions
About Irving Middle SchoolHow large is Irving Middle School?
Irving Middle School enrolls approximately 515 students in grades 05-08.
What age range does Irving Middle School serve?
Irving Middle School serves students from grade 05 through grade 08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Irving Middle School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Irving Middle School is approximately 12.6:1 (41 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at Irving Middle School?
Student demographics at Irving Middle School are roughly 0% White, 34% Hispanic, 63% Black, 3% Two or more.
Is Irving Middle School public or private?
Irving Middle School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Maywood-Melrose Park-Broadview 89.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.