Mazon-Verona-Kinsman Middle Sch
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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 49 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 21 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 7 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 5 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 38% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 47% 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 Mazon-Verona-Kinsman Middle Sch
Mazon-Verona-Kinsman Middle Sch operates as a tiny middle-grades school in Mazon, Illinois, one of the schools within Mazon-Verona-Kinsman ESD 2C. Current enrollment sits at 144 students spanning grades 5 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 69% below the state mean of about 462.
Mazon-Verona-Kinsman ESD 2C runs 2 schools in total, collectively educating 316 students. Mazon-Verona-Kinsman Middle Sch is one of those campuses.
On the student-mix side, Mazon-Verona-Kinsman Middle Sch logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (89%). Beyond that, the school shows 10% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.
Looking at school resources, The school currently runs with 11 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.7:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 42% of students at Mazon-Verona-Kinsman Middle Sch qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Mazon-Verona-Kinsman Middle Sch performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 47.0%, the actual is 37.7%, a residual of -9.4 points.
Around the school, ACS estimates for Grundy County put median household earnings sit near $92,235, about 24% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Grundy County runs 28 public schools (combined enrollment of about 12,070 students), of which Mazon-Verona-Kinsman Middle Sch is one.
Nearest neighbor: Mazon-Verona-Kinsman Elem School, around 0.1 miles off. Within ten miles, there are 8 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Mazon-Verona-Kinsman Middle Sch at 8th of 8; the average score across the group is 53.2%.
Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.
Trend over the last 7 years. Mazon-Verona-Kinsman Middle Sch's enrollment has grew 15% since 2018, when it stood at 125 (now 144). Over the same period, the Hispanic share ticked up from 6% to 10%. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 11.5:1 in 2018 to 12.7:1 today.
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