Magee Middle School

As an average-sized junior high in Round Lake, Illinois, Magee Middle School educates 642 students from grades 6 through 8, operated by Round Lake CUSD 116. Enrollment runs roughly 39% above the state mean of about 462.

Round Lake CUSD 116 comprises 9 schools with combined enrollment of 6,473 students; Magee Middle School is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Magee Middle School logs that Hispanic students make up the majority at 79%; the rest breaks down as 9% White, 8% Black, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 25% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 63 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.2:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 13.0:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 89% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is noticeably above Lake County's rate of about 54%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Magee Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 20.0%, the actual is 17.5%, a residual of -2.5 points.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Lake County put the typical household earns roughly $110,416 per year, 48% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Across Lake County's 214 public schools (combined enrollment of about 118,032 students), Magee Middle School is one campus in the mix.

Round Lake Senior High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Magee Middle School comes 5th of 6 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 28.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Magee Middle School has ticked down 10%, going from 717 students in 2018 to 642 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 12.4:1 in 2018 to 10.2:1 today.

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