Larsen Middle School

As a reasonably sized 6-8 campus in Elgin, Illinois, Larsen Middle School educates 570 students from grades 7 through 8, operated by SD U-46. By comparison, Illinois's public schools average about 462 students each, so Larsen Middle School sits 23% bigger than that benchmark.

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

Looking at the student body, Larsen Middle School logs that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 80% of enrollment. The remainder is composed of 7% White, 6% Asian, 5% Black. By comparison, Kane County as a whole is about 33% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.3:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 13.0:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 63% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Kane County (around 48%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Larsen Middle School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 35.3% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 23.4%.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Kane County indicate median household income runs about $103,163, roughly 38% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Larsen Middle School is one of 167 public schools in Kane County (combined enrollment of about 87,252 students).

Nearest neighbor: McKinley Elem School, around 0.4 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Larsen Middle School. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Larsen Middle School ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 25.8%.

The campus sits in a metropolitan setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 16%: 679 students in 2018 compared to 570 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment ticked up from 71% to 80% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 16.0:1 in 2018 to 14.3:1 today.

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