Miguel Juarez Middle School

Located at 201 N Butrick St, in Waukegan, Illinois, Miguel Juarez Middle School is a reasonably sized middle school that works with 651 students (grades 6 through 8), part of Waukegan CUSD 60. Enrollment runs roughly 41% bigger than the state mean of about 462.

Waukegan CUSD 60 comprises 22 schools with combined enrollment of 13,640 students; Miguel Juarez Middle School is among them.

On the student-mix side, Miguel Juarez Middle School shows that nearly all students (83%) are Hispanic. Other groups include 10% Black, 2% White. The wider county runs roughly 25% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, The school currently runs with 61 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.7:1. The state averages around 13.0:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 70% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Lake County (around 54%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

With demographic context factored in, Miguel Juarez Middle School is in the bottom 10% of Illinois public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 31.3%; Miguel Juarez Middle School posts 12.7%, -18.6 points below that line.

In the area at large, census data for Lake County shows median household income runs about $110,416, about 48% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Lake County's 214 public schools (combined enrollment of about 118,032 students), Miguel Juarez Middle School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Robert E Abbott Middle School, roughly 0.2 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Miguel Juarez Middle School ranks 7th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 22.8%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Looking at the recent track record. Miguel Juarez Middle School's enrollment has declined 22% since 2018, when it stood at 830 (now 651). The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 15.1:1 in 2018 to 10.7:1 today.

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