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How has Miguel Juarez Middle School changed in the last five years, for better or worse?
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Enrollment
651
Middle
DISTRICT 585 · STATE 462
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·WAUKEGAN CUSD 60·NCES 174125001753
Miguel Juarez Middle School
201 N Butrick St, Waukegan, IL 60085 · (224) 303-2660 · Lake County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL651 STUDENTS
F
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 0% of Illinois public middle schools
- FTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- FBeats 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
10.7:1
61 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.5:1 · STATE 13.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
70%
453 students
DISTRICT 70% · STATE 56%
Community
6
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 | 187 | 29% |
| Grade 7 | 255 | 39% |
| Grade 8 | 209 | 32% |
Student demographics
29%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 32% · 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
Students here typically continue to
Miguel Juarez Middle School→Waukegan High School
Based on grade levels within Waukegan CUSD 60. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
IAR + ISA 2024-25 . % Proficient (Levels 4-5)English Language Arts
14.4%
IL avg 51.0% . +4.8pp since 2023
Math
10.8%
IL avg 37.9% . +8.4pp since 2023
What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 14 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 11 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 5 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 8 points.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 14.4% | 10.8% |
| 2023-24 | 9.6% | 2.4% |
% 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
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of IL schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
12.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
31.3%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-18.6pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 13% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 31% typical for Illinois schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
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 Miguel Juarez Middle School
Miguel Juarez Middle School's state test result (12.7% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Miguel Juarez Middle School this school | 651 | 69.6% | 12.7% |
| Robert E Abbott Middle School Waukegan | 585 | 71.1% | 15.5% |
| K D Waldo Middle School Aurora | 729 | 70.0% | 12.7% |
| Henry W Cowherd Middle School Aurora | 807 | 67.0% | 15.5% |
| Edith M Smith Middle School Waukegan | 493 | 72.2% | 11.9% |
| John R Lewis Middle School Waukegan | 721 | 74.1% | 26.7% |
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 Miguel Juarez Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Illinois | In Lake County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 12.7% | #564 of 578 | #29 of 31 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 10.8% | #587 of 640 ▲ 40 | #36 of 44 ▲ 8 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 14.4% | #634 of 640 ▼ 1 | #43 of 44 ▲ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 651 | #171 of 691 | #15 of 44 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.7:1 | #71 of 558 | #13 of 44 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 29.3% | #405 of 560 | #41 of 44 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 69.6% | #107 of 581 | #9 of 31 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -21.6% | #72 of 440 | #7 of 34 |
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
651
-111 (-15%) vs 2020
-12% since 2000-01, when it was 740
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 | 651 | 61 | 10.7:1 | 70% (453) |
| 2023-24 | 662 | 43 | 15.4:1 | 74% (487) |
| 2022-23 | 672 | 46.5 | 14.4:1 | 69% (467) |
| 2020-21 | 762 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 830 | 55 | 15.1:1 | 72% (595) |
| 2015-16 | 802 | 56 | 14.3:1 | 54% (432) |
| 2010-11 | 718 | 50 | 14.4:1 | 69% (494) |
| 2000-01 | 740 | 53 | 14.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Miguel Juarez Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students down 22% (830 to 651); teachers up 11% (55 to 61).
About Miguel Juarez Middle School
Miguel Juarez Middle School is a middle-grades school located in Waukegan, Illinois, in Lake County. The school counted 651 students in 2024-25, covering grades 6 through 8. That puts enrollment 41% larger than the 462-student average for middle schools in Illinois.
Miguel Juarez Middle School is one of 22 schools in Waukegan CUSD 60, which enrolls 13,640 students in total.
At Miguel Juarez Middle School, 83% of students are Hispanic. Smaller groups are 10% Black and 2% White. For comparison, the population of Lake County is roughly 25% Hispanic. The diversity index for Miguel Juarez Middle School is 29%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
Miguel Juarez Middle School has a student-to-teacher ratio of 10.7:1, with 61 full-time-equivalent teachers. The average for middle schools in Illinois, 13.0:1, is higher. A common income measure, free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, is 70% at Miguel Juarez Middle School. Across public schools in Lake County, the average is 54%.
Miguel Juarez Middle School holds an F allk12 Grade, placing it above 0% of Illinois public middle schools.
Miguel Juarez Middle School trails its predicted average proficiency rate across its state test results by 18.6 points (12.7% versus 31.3%), a bottom-10% result in Illinois on BeatsExpectations.
The school is in Lake County, where the median household earns about $110,416 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 48% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 6%. Miguel Juarez Middle School shares Lake County with 213 other public schools.
Robert E Abbott Middle School is about 0.2 miles away, making it the nearest public school. Within five miles of Miguel Juarez Middle School, there are at least 8 other public schools. The average proficiency across nearby scored schools is 22.8%; Miguel Juarez Middle School's is 12.7%, ranking 7th of 9.
For locale, NCES codes Miguel Juarez Middle School as Suburb: Large.
Since 2020-21, enrollment has fallen 15%, from 762 to 651.
This page is a place to ask questions and share updates about open houses, carpools, and field trips at Miguel Juarez Middle School. Members of the school community can share what they know.
Lake County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
714,223
Census ACS
Median income
$110,416
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
48%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
214
118,032 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Waukegan CUSD 60
- Waukegan High SchoolHigh · 4,186 students
- John R Lewis Middle SchoolMiddle · 721 students
- Robert E Abbott Middle SchoolMiddle · 585 students
- Glenwood Elementary SchoolElementary · 577 students
- Carman-Buckner Elementary SchoolElementary · 509 students
- Oakdale Elementary SchoolElementary · 505 students
Other schools in Waukegan
- Waukegan High SchoolHigh · 4,186 students
- John R Lewis Middle SchoolMiddle · 721 students
- Robert E Abbott Middle SchoolMiddle · 585 students
- Glenwood Elementary SchoolElementary · 577 students
- LEARN John Kathy Schreiber ChrtrElementary · 519 students
- Carman-Buckner Elementary SchoolElementary · 509 students
Nearby schools
- Robert E Abbott Middle School0.2 mi · 585
- Hyde Park Elementary School0.3 mi · 295
- Waukegan High School0.3 mi · 4,186
- Edith M Smith Middle School0.7 mi · 493
- Andrew Cooke Magnet Elementary School0.8 mi · 395
- Whittier Elementary School0.8 mi · 438
Frequently asked questions
About Miguel Juarez Middle SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Miguel Juarez Middle School?
Miguel Juarez Middle School enrolls approximately 651 students in grades 06-08.
What grades does Miguel Juarez Middle School serve?
Miguel Juarez Middle School serves grades 06-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Miguel Juarez Middle School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Miguel Juarez Middle School is approximately 10.7:1 (61 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Miguel Juarez Middle School?
At Miguel Juarez Middle School, the student body is approximately 2% White, 83% Hispanic, 10% Black, 2% Asian, 2% Two or more.
What district is Miguel Juarez Middle School in?
Miguel Juarez Middle School is part of Waukegan CUSD 60.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.