Jack London Middle School

Jack London Middle School is one of the mid-tier middle schools in Wheeling, Illinois, operated by Wheeling CCSD 21, with 628 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 462 students per school, that is 36% above typical.

Wheeling CCSD 21 comprises 12 schools with combined enrollment of 6,298 students; Jack London Middle School is among them.

On the student-mix side, Jack London Middle School shows that the most-represented group is Hispanic (55%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest comes out to 30% White, 9% Asian, 4% multiracial, 2% Black. By comparison, Cook County as a whole is about 27% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, The school employs 65 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 9.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.0:1, putting Jack London Middle School tighter than the state norm the norm. About 64% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, Jack London Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 34.8%, the actual is 39.8%, a residual of +5.0 points.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Cook County) shows that 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%. Jack London Middle School is one of 1406 public schools in Cook County (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students).

Eugene Field Elem School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Jack London Middle School ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 33.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a suburban area.

Looking at the recent track record. Jack London Middle School's enrollment has declined 7% since 2018, when it stood at 678 (now 628). The White share of enrollment ticked down from 35% to 30% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 12.5:1 in 2018 to 9.7:1 today.

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