Jack Hille Middle School

Set in Oak Forest, Illinois, Jack Hille Middle School is a mid-tier middle-grades school, one of the schools within Forest Ridge SD 142. It educates 490 students across grades 6 through 8.

Forest Ridge SD 142 runs 4 schools in total, collectively educating 1,539 students. Jack Hille Middle School is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Jack Hille Middle School reports that the most-represented group is White (48%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest comes out to 34% Hispanic, 9% Black, 6% multiracial, 4% Asian.

On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.0:1, putting Jack Hille Middle School higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 47% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is below Cook County's rate of about 66%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Jack Hille Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 44.6%, the actual is 40.0%, a residual of -4.6 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Cook County indicate the typical household earns roughly $83,498 per year, about 43% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Cook County's 1406 public schools (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students), Jack Hille Middle School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Lee R Foster Elem School, roughly 0.3 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Jack Hille Middle School. On composite proficiency, Jack Hille Middle School comes 4th of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 42.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area.

Looking at the recent track record. Jack Hille Middle School's enrollment has declined 14% since 2018, when it stood at 568 (now 490). The White share of enrollment ticked down from 66% to 48% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 20.5:1 in 2018 to 14.8:1 today.

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