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How has Memorial Jr High School changed in the last five years, for better or worse?
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Enrollment
854
Middle
DISTRICT 509 · STATE 462
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·LANSING SD 158·NCES 172202002470
Memorial Jr High School
2721 Ridge Rd, Lansing, IL 60438 · (708) 474-2383 · Cook County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL854 STUDENTS
B-
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Scored higher than 47% of Illinois public middle schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Illinois public middle schools
Student : Teacher
15.5:1
55 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.4:1 · STATE 13.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
99%
847 students
DISTRICT 80% · STATE 56%
Community
5
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 239 | 28% |
| Grade 7 | 327 | 38% |
| Grade 8 | 288 | 34% |
Student demographics
56%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 55% · STATE 69% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within Lansing SD 158. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
IAR + ISA 2024-25 . % Proficient (Levels 4-5)English Language Arts
37.4%
IL avg 51.0% . +6.4pp since 2023
Math
16.0%
IL avg 37.9% . +7.1pp since 2023
What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 37 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 16 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 7 points.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 37.4% | 16.0% |
| 2023-24 | 31.0% | 8.9% |
% Proficient (Levels 4-5), all students and all tested grades.
Source: IAR + ISA. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
27.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
14.2%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+12.8pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 27% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 14% 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%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Memorial Jr High School
Memorial Jr High School's state test result (27.1% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Memorial Jr High School this school | 854 | 99.2% | 27.1% |
| Coolidge Middle School Phoenix | 460 | 99.3% | 29.6% |
| Prairie-Hills Junior High School Markham | 766 | 94.0% | 21.1% |
| South View Upper Elementary School Danville | 664 | 93.1% | 12.2% |
| Kankakee Junior High School Kankakee | 501 | 90.6% | 21.3% |
| Brooks Middle School Harvey | 455 | 89.0% | 20.7% |
Matched among Illinois middle schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Memorial Jr High School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Illinois | In Cook County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 27.1% | #467 of 578 | #80 of 116 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 16.0% | #529 of 640 ▲ 28 | #116 of 146 ▲ 5 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 37.4% | #516 of 640 ▼ 27 | #111 of 146 ▼ 12 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 854 | #62 of 691 | #15 of 148 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.5:1 | #478 of 558 | #123 of 138 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 56.5% | #196 of 560 | #52 of 138 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 99.2% | #10 of 581 | #7 of 117 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -8.9% | #273 of 440 | #68 of 97 |
Ranked against other public middle schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
854
-61 (-7%) vs 2020
+45% since 1990-91, when it was 589
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 854 | 55 | 15.5:1 | 99% (847) |
| 2023-24 | 863 | 52 | 16.6:1 | 99% (854) |
| 2022-23 | 860 | 51.9 | 16.6:1 | 47% (402) |
| 2020-21 | 915 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 937 | 54.2 | 17.3:1 | 71% (664) |
| 2015-16 | 855 | 53 | 16.1:1 | 71% (609) |
| 2010-11 | 823 | 50 | 16.5:1 | 64% (528) |
| 2000-01 | 670 | 39 | 17.2:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 589 | 33 | 17.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Memorial Jr High School.
Since 2017-18: students down 9% (937 to 854); teachers up 2% (54.2 to 55).
About Memorial Jr High School
Memorial Jr High School is a high-enrollment middle-grades school in Lansing, Illinois. The latest federal count shows 854 students in grades 6 through 8. The average for middle schools in Illinois is about 462 students, so this school is 85% bigger than average.
Enrollment across the 5 schools in Lansing SD 158 totals 2,547 students.
A majority of students at Memorial Jr High School, 59%, are Black. The next largest groups are 28% Hispanic, 6% White, and 6% multiracial. The school's Black share is 37 points above the 22% share among Cook County residents. The chance that two students picked at random at Memorial Jr High School belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 56%.
The school's student-to-teacher ratio is about 15.5:1, with 55 full-time-equivalent teachers. Among middle schools in Illinois, the typical ratio is 13.0:1. Lunch subsidy eligibility at Memorial Jr High School is 99%. For comparison, public schools in Cook County average 66%.
allk12 grades Memorial Jr High School a B-. The grade compares the school only with Illinois public middle schools, because each state gives its own test.
On a poverty-adjusted basis, Memorial Jr High School falls in the middle 80% of Illinois schools: 27.1% actual against 14.2% predicted.
County data help place the school in context: in Cook County, median household income is about $83,498, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 43% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 10%. The public schools of Cook County number 1,406 and enroll about 697,934.
The closest public school, Lester Crawl Primary Center, is about 0.5 miles from Memorial Jr High School. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Among the 8 closest schools with test data, this one included, Memorial Jr High School ranks 6th on average proficiency.
Federal data place Memorial Jr High School in the Suburb: Large locale, which means it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
From 2020-21 to 2024-25, Memorial Jr High School went from 915 students to 854.
The discussion area below is open to posts about enrollment questions, class placement, and PTA news. Reviews and ratings from people who know the school are welcome.
Cook County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
5,182,090
Census ACS
Median income
$83,498
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
43%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
1,406
697,934 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Lansing SD 158
- Coolidge Elementary SchoolElementary · 670 students
- Oak Glen Elementary SchoolElementary · 526 students
- Reavis Elementary SchoolElementary · 362 students
- Lester Crawl Primary CenterElementary · 135 students
Other schools in Lansing
- Thornton Fractnl So High SchoolHigh · 1,803 students
- Coolidge Elementary SchoolElementary · 670 students
- Oak Glen Elementary SchoolElementary · 526 students
- Nathan Hale Elementary SchoolElementary · 525 students
- Heritage Middle SchoolMiddle · 500 students
- Reavis Elementary SchoolElementary · 362 students
Other Memorial Junior High schools
2 other US public schools in 3 states are named Memorial Junior High. Memorial Jr High School is the 2nd largest of the 3.
- Memorial Junior High SchoolEAGLE PASS, TX · 927 students
- Memorial Junior High SchoolCleveland, OH · 463 students
Nearby schools
- Lester Crawl Primary Center0.5 mi · 135
- Thornton Fractnl So High School0.6 mi · 1,803
- Oak Glen Elementary School0.8 mi · 526
- Coolidge Elementary School1.0 mi · 670
- Nathan Hale Elementary School1.2 mi · 525
- Heritage Middle School1.3 mi · 500
Frequently asked questions
About Memorial Jr High SchoolHow many students attend Memorial Jr High School?
Memorial Jr High School enrolls approximately 854 students in grades 06-08.
What grades does Memorial Jr High School serve?
Memorial Jr High School serves grades 06-08.
How many teachers does Memorial Jr High School have?
Memorial Jr High School employs 55 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 15.5:1.
What is the student diversity at Memorial Jr High School?
Student demographics at Memorial Jr High School are roughly 6% White, 28% Hispanic, 59% Black, 1% Asian, 6% Two or more.
Who oversees Memorial Jr High School?
Memorial Jr High School is overseen by Lansing SD 158 in Cook County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.