Lake Zurich Middle - S Campus

Set in Lake Zurich, Illinois, Lake Zurich Middle - S Campus is a middle-of-the-pack middle school, overseen by Lake Zurich CUSD 95. It educates 599 students across grades 6 through 8. That puts it 30% larger than the typical public school in Illinois, which averages around 462 students.

Lake Zurich CUSD 95 comprises 8 schools with combined enrollment of 5,772 students; Lake Zurich Middle - S Campus is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Lake Zurich Middle - S Campus shows that 80% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder reads as 9% Asian, 6% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 61% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully more White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 55 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.0:1, putting Lake Zurich Middle - S Campus tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 15% of students at Lake Zurich Middle - S Campus qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is below Lake County's rate of about 54%.

With demographic context factored in, Lake Zurich Middle - S Campus is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 62.6%; this one delivers 78.8%, a residual of +16.1 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Lake County) records that median household earnings sit near $110,416, 48% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Across Lake County's 214 public schools (combined enrollment of about 118,032 students), Lake Zurich Middle - S Campus is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Isaac Fox Elementary School, roughly 0.1 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Lake Zurich Middle - S Campus at 1st of 8; the average score across the group is 71.9%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Lake Zurich Middle - S Campus has rose 3%, going from 582 students in 2018 to 599 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 11.9:1 in 2018 to 10.8:1 in 2025.

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