Kimball Middle School

Kimball Middle School operates as a mid-tier intermediate school in Elgin, Illinois, part of SD U-46. Current enrollment sits at 501 students spanning grades 7 through 8.

SD U-46 runs 51 schools in total, collectively educating 34,036 students. Kimball Middle School is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Kimball Middle School lists that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 74% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school records 11% White, 10% Black, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Kane County as a whole is about 33% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school employs 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.1:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.0:1 average. Around 64% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Kane County runs at roughly 48%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Kimball Middle School falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 34.6%; this one comes in at 20.4%, -14.3 points off the demographic line.

In the surrounding community, Kane County reports that median household income runs about $103,163, 38% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Across Kane County's 167 public schools (combined enrollment of about 87,252 students), Kimball Middle School is one campus in the mix.

Highland Elem School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Kimball Middle School. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Kimball Middle School ranks 7th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 23.4%.

Kimball Middle School operates from a city-core location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 12%: 571 students in 2018 compared to 501 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 70% to 74% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 15.1:1 in 2018 to 12.1:1 today.

In the discussion threads here, posts here usually surface around fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.