Minooka Intermediate School

Located at 321 W McEvilly Rd, in Minooka, Illinois, Minooka Intermediate School is a heavily attended 6-8 campus that hosts 941 students (grades 5 through 6), overseen by Minooka CCSD 201. By comparison, Illinois's public schools average about 462 students each, so Minooka Intermediate School sits 104% larger than that benchmark.

Within Minooka CCSD 201, which oversees 7 schools and 4,361 students, Minooka Intermediate School is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Minooka Intermediate School logs that White students make up the majority at 65%; the rest looks like 24% Hispanic, 6% Black, 4% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 86% White, putting the school's mix considerably less White than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Minooka Intermediate School has 62 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.2:1. The state averages around 13.0:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 27% of students at Minooka Intermediate School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Grundy County (around 35%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Minooka Intermediate School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 55.9%, the actual is 48.7%, a residual of -7.2 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Grundy County indicate median household income runs about $92,235, 24% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Minooka Intermediate School is one of 28 public schools in Grundy County (combined enrollment of about 12,070 students).

Minooka Primary Center is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Minooka Intermediate School. Among the 4 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Minooka Intermediate School ranks 1st on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 43.2%.

The campus sits in a suburban setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Minooka Intermediate School has ticked down 10%, going from 1,049 students in 2018 to 941 in 2025.

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