K D Waldo Middle School

Located at 56 Jackson St, in Aurora, Illinois, K D Waldo Middle School is a heavily attended intermediate school that educates 729 students (grades 6 through 8), run under Aurora East USD 131. By comparison, Illinois's public schools average about 462 students each, so K D Waldo Middle School sits 58% above that benchmark.

K D Waldo Middle School is one of 18 schools operated by Aurora East USD 131, a district that educates 12,187 students overall.

In terms of who attends, K D Waldo Middle School shows that nearly all students (89%) are Hispanic. Other groups include 6% Black, 3% White. The wider county runs roughly 33% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, K D Waldo Middle School shows 55 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.3:1. The state averages about 13.0:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 70% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Kane County runs at roughly 48%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, K D Waldo Middle School is in the bottom 10% of Illinois public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 31.1%; K D Waldo Middle School posts 12.7%, -18.4 points below that line.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Kane County shows the typical household earns roughly $103,163 per year, 38% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Kane County's 167 public schools (combined enrollment of about 87,252 students), K D Waldo Middle School is one campus in the mix.

Fred Rodgers Magnet Acad is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts K D Waldo Middle School at 6th of 9; the average score across the group is 20.9%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at K D Waldo Middle School has shrank 24%, going from 964 students in 2018 to 729 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 15.4:1 in 2018 to 13.3:1 in 2025.

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