Jack Benny Middle School

Jack Benny Middle School operates as a mid-sized intermediate school in Waukegan, Illinois, run under Waukegan CUSD 60. Current enrollment sits at 475 students spanning grades 6 through 8.

Waukegan CUSD 60 runs 22 schools in total, collectively educating 13,640 students. Jack Benny Middle School is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Jack Benny Middle School records that 75% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. The remainder reads as 10% Black, 7% Asian, 4% White, 2% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 25% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Jack Benny Middle School lists 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.5:1. The state averages about 13.0:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 62% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

After controlling for student poverty, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Jack Benny Middle School sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 35.6%; actual is 17.3%, a gap of -18.4 points.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Lake County put median household earnings sit near $110,416, roughly 48% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Across Lake County's 214 public schools (combined enrollment of about 118,032 students), Jack Benny Middle School is one campus in the mix.

Little Fort Elem School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Jack Benny Middle School ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 27.9%.

Jack Benny Middle School operates from an outer-ring location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Jack Benny Middle School has contracted 22%, going from 607 students in 2018 to 475 in 2025. The Asian share of enrollment edged up from 3% to 7% over that span. Class-load math has tightened: from 13.8:1 in 2018 to 12.5:1 in 2025.

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