Kenyon Woods Middle School

Located at 1515 Raymond St, in South Elgin, Illinois, Kenyon Woods Middle School is an expansive 6-8 campus that caters to 873 students (grades 7 through 8), run under SD U-46. Enrollment runs roughly 89% bigger than the state mean of about 462.

Within SD U-46, which oversees 51 schools and 34,036 students, Kenyon Woods Middle School is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Kenyon Woods Middle School records that the largest single group is Hispanic at 44%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest breaks down as 38% White, 10% Asian, 4% multiracial, 3% Black. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 33%.

In terms of school funding signals, The school currently runs with 62 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.1:1. The state averages around 13.0:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 38% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Kane County runs at roughly 48%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Kenyon Woods Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 49.7%, the actual is 45.0%, a residual of -4.7 points.

In the area at large, Kane County reports that median household earnings sit near $103,163, about 38% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Kenyon Woods Middle School is one of 167 public schools in Kane County (combined enrollment of about 87,252 students).

South Elgin High 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. On composite proficiency, Kenyon Woods Middle School comes 3rd of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 35.1%.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Kenyon Woods Middle School's enrollment has shrank 16% since 2018, when it stood at 1,041 (now 873). Hispanic enrollment moved from 28% to 44% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 17.2:1 in 2018 to 14.1:1 today.

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