Meadowbrook Intermediate 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 51 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 31 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 6 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 8 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 41% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 44% 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Meadowbrook Intermediate Sch
Set in Moro, Illinois, Meadowbrook Intermediate Sch is a medium-sized primary school, run under Bethalto CUSD 8. It works with 344 students across grades 4 through 5.
Bethalto CUSD 8 comprises 5 schools with combined enrollment of 2,368 students; Meadowbrook Intermediate Sch is among them.
On demographics, Meadowbrook Intermediate Sch reports that the student body is overwhelmingly White (88%). Beyond that, the school lists 6% multiracial, 4% Hispanic, 2% Black.
In terms of school funding signals, The school employs 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.9:1, putting Meadowbrook Intermediate Sch higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 48% of students at Meadowbrook Intermediate Sch qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.
After controlling for student poverty, Meadowbrook Intermediate Sch performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 43.8%, the actual is 40.9%, a residual of -2.9 points.
Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Madison County put median household earnings sit near $75,793, about 31% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Meadowbrook Intermediate Sch is one of 84 public schools in Madison County (combined enrollment of about 35,253 students).
Nearest neighbor: Parkside Primary School, around 1.2 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Meadowbrook Intermediate Sch comes 2nd of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 34.5%.
Meadowbrook Intermediate Sch operates from a rural location.
Over the past 7-year window. Meadowbrook Intermediate Sch's enrollment has edged down 8% since 2018, when it stood at 373 (now 344). Class-load math has narrowed: from 21.7:1 in 2018 to 15.6:1 in 2025.
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