Mokena Jr High School

Located at 19815 Kirkstone Way, in Mokena, Illinois, Mokena Jr High School is a moderately sized middle-grades school that enrolls 502 students (grades 6 through 8), run under Mokena SD 159.

Across the 3 schools in Mokena SD 159 (1,557 students total), Mokena Jr High School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, Mokena Jr High School shows that 79% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder comes out to 13% Hispanic, 4% Black, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Will County as a whole is about 62% White, so the school skews noticeably more White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.3:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 13.0:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 17% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Will County (around 44%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

With demographic context factored in, Mokena Jr High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 61.7%, the actual is 67.2%, a residual of +5.5 points.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Will County) reports that median household earnings sit near $109,984, 38% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Will County's 209 public schools (combined enrollment of about 113,008 students), Mokena Jr High School is one campus in the mix.

Arbury Hills Elem School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Mokena Jr High School. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Mokena Jr High School ranks 1st on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 61.6%.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Mokena Jr High School has held roughly steady, going from 509 students in 2018 to 502 in 2025. The White share of enrollment declined from 86% to 79% over that span. Class-load math has narrowed: from 14.1:1 in 2018 to 12.3:1 in 2025.

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