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Lake Zurich Middle - N Campus
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Test scores
IAR + ISA 2024-25 . % Proficient (Levels 4-5)What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 79 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 63 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Illinois schools, those numbers are about 51 and 38. Reading and writing scores are up about 6 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 8 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 71% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 58% typical for Illinois schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Illinois's top nor bottom 10%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Lake Zurich Middle - N Campus
Lake Zurich Middle - N Campus is a 6-8 campus of roomy scale in Hawthorn Woods, Illinois, one of the schools within Lake Zurich CUSD 95, instructing 697 students in grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Illinois's public schools average about 462 students each, so Lake Zurich Middle - N Campus sits 51% above that benchmark.
Within Lake Zurich CUSD 95, which oversees 8 schools and 5,772 students, Lake Zurich Middle - N Campus is one campus in the system.
On demographics, Lake Zurich Middle - N Campus logs that White students make up the majority at 70%. Beyond that, the school logs 13% Asian, 10% Hispanic, 3% multiracial, 3% Black. By comparison, Lake County as a whole is about 61% White, so the school skews meaningfully more White than its surroundings.
Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 55 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.7:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 13.0:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 23% of students at Lake Zurich Middle - N Campus qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably below Lake County's rate of about 54%.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, Lake Zurich Middle - N Campus performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 58.0%, the actual is 70.7%, a residual of +12.6 points.
Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Lake County put the typical household earns roughly $110,416 per year, roughly 48% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Lake County's 214 public schools (combined enrollment of about 118,032 students), Lake Zurich Middle - N Campus is one campus in the mix.
Spencer Loomis Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Lake Zurich Middle - N Campus at 8th of 8; the average score across the group is 75.5%.
Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.
Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 3%: 715 students in 2018 compared to 697 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 78% to 70%.
Within the allk12 community for this school, posts here usually surface around science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.
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