Momence Jr High School

Momence Jr High School is one of the cozy middle schools in Momence, Illinois, one of the schools within Momence CUSD 1, with 327 students on its rolls from grades 5 through 8. That puts it 29% leaner than the typical public school in Illinois, which averages around 462 students.

Momence CUSD 1 comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 970 students; Momence Jr High School is among them.

Looking at the student body, Momence Jr High School shows that the largest single group is White at 51%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder breaks down as 29% Hispanic, 14% Black, 6% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 73% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, On paper, Momence Jr High School has 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.8:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 71% of students at Momence Jr High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Kankakee County (around 61%), the school's rate is north of typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Momence Jr High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 30.4%, the actual is 31.9%, a residual of +1.6 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Kankakee County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $71,281 per year, roughly 21% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. In all, Kankakee County runs 44 public schools (combined enrollment of about 16,499 students), of which Momence Jr High School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Momence High School, around 0.2 miles off. Within five miles, there are 2 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Momence Jr High School comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 34.1%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 25%: 434 students in 2018 compared to 327 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 18.1:1 in 2018 to 12.8:1 today.

Within the allk12 community for this school, posts here usually surface around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.