Mannheim Middle School

Located at 2600 Hyde Park Ave, in Melrose Park, Illinois, Mannheim Middle School is a substantial middle-grades school that caters to 768 students (grades 6 through 8), run under Mannheim SD 83. Compared to the state average of about 462 students per school, that is 66% above typical.

Mannheim SD 83 runs 5 schools in total, collectively educating 2,338 students. Mannheim Middle School is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Mannheim Middle School logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (88%); the rest reads as 7% White. By comparison, Cook County as a whole is about 27% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Mannheim Middle School shows 74 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.3:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.0:1 average. Roughly 65% of students at Mannheim Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

With demographic context factored in, Mannheim Middle School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 33.8%; this one delivers 33.0%.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Cook County indicate median household income runs about $83,498, about 43% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Cook County's 1406 public schools (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students), Mannheim Middle School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Roy Elem School, around 0.7 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Mannheim Middle School ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 40.0%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Looking at the recent track record. Mannheim Middle School's enrollment has fell 10% since 2018, when it stood at 852 (now 768). The White share of enrollment contracted from 13% to 7% over that span. Class-load math has fell: from 13.1:1 in 2018 to 10.3:1 in 2025.

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