King Middle Grade School

As an average-sized elementary-level community in Kankakee, Illinois, King Middle Grade School serves 385 students from grades 3 through 6, overseen by Kankakee SD 111.

Within Kankakee SD 111, which oversees 10 schools and 4,602 students, King Middle Grade School is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, King Middle Grade School logs that the largest single group is Black at 53%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest reads as 30% Hispanic, 12% White, 5% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 14% Black, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Black than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, King Middle Grade School records 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 19.8:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.9:1 average. About 94% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably above Kankakee County's rate of about 61%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, King Middle Grade School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 17.1%; this one delivers 25.0%.

Zooming out to the county, Kankakee County reports that median household income runs about $71,281, about 21% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. In all, Kankakee County runs 44 public schools (combined enrollment of about 16,499 students), of which King Middle Grade School is one.

Lincoln Cltrl Ctr-Montessori Elem is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around King Middle Grade School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts King Middle Grade School at 2nd of 7; the average score across the group is 17.6%.

The school occupies a city-core site.

Trend over the last 7 years. King Middle Grade School's enrollment has edged down 32% since 2018, when it stood at 569 (now 385). The White share of enrollment shrank from 19% to 12% over that span. Class-load math has grew: from 16.9:1 in 2018 to 19.8:1 in 2025.

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