Kelvin Grove Jr High School

Kelvin Grove Jr High School is one of the modestly sized junior highs in Lockport, Illinois, run under Lockport SD 91, with 260 students on its rolls from grades 4 through 8. By comparison, Illinois's public schools average about 462 students each, so Kelvin Grove Jr High School sits 44% below that benchmark.

Lockport SD 91 comprises 2 schools with combined enrollment of 493 students; Kelvin Grove Jr High School is among them.

On the student-mix side, Kelvin Grove Jr High School shows that the largest single group is White, at 77% of enrollment; the rest consists of 16% Hispanic, 3% multiracial, 3% Black. That is considerably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 62%.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 8.7:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.0:1 average. Around 37% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Kelvin Grove Jr High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.4%, the actual is 62.7%, a residual of +12.3 points.

In the area at large, census data for Will County shows the typical household earns roughly $109,984 per year, about 38% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Across Will County's 209 public schools (combined enrollment of about 113,008 students), Kelvin Grove Jr High School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Milne Grove Elem School, around 0.4 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Kelvin Grove Jr High School comes 3rd of 6 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 51.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

Over the past 7-year window. Kelvin Grove Jr High School's enrollment has edged down 29% since 2018, when it stood at 366 (now 260). Hispanic enrollment moved from 9% to 16% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 15.2:1 in 2018 to 8.7:1 today.

In the discussion threads here, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. The community welcomes input from current and former families.