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Enrollment
716
Middle
DISTRICT 639 · STATE 462
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CUSD 200·NCES 174218005558
Monroe Middle School
1855 Manchester Rd, Wheaton, IL 60187 · (630) 682-2285 · DuPage County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL716 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
12.9:1
56 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.8:1 · STATE 13.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
34%
244 students
DISTRICT 30% · STATE 56%
Community
5
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 | 235 | 33% |
| Grade 7 | 252 | 35% |
| Grade 8 | 228 | 32% |
| Grade 9 | 1 | 0% |
Student demographics
61%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 58% · 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
Test scores
IAR + ISA 2024-25 . % Proficient (Levels 4-5)English Language Arts
82.0%
IL avg 51.0% . +14.1pp since 2023
Math
54.7%
IL avg 37.9% . +8.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 82 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 55 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 14 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 8 points.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 82.0% | 54.7% |
| 2023-24 | 67.9% | 46.7% |
% 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
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of IL schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
66.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
51.8%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+15.0pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 67% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 52% typical for Illinois schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 15 points, placing it in Illinois's top 10%.
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 Monroe Middle School
Monroe Middle School's state test result (66.8% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monroe Middle School this school | 716 | 34.1% | 66.8% |
| Glenn Westlake Middle School Lombard | 935 | 30.6% | 47.2% |
| Hubble Middle School Warrenville | 679 | 33.6% | 57.2% |
| Chiddix Jr High School Normal | 597 | 30.8% | 48.1% |
| Hampshire Middle School Hampshire | 821 | 33.5% | 38.6% |
| Glen Crest Middle School Glen Ellyn | 723 | 26.6% | 56.0% |
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 Monroe Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Illinois | In DuPage County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 66.8% | #55 of 578 | #13 of 43 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 54.7% | #112 of 640 ▼ 3 | #23 of 51 ▼ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 82.0% | #57 of 640 ▲ 57 | #13 of 51 ▲ 8 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 716 | #131 of 691 | #15 of 51 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.9:1 | #269 of 558 | #30 of 48 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 60.7% | #148 of 560 | #19 of 48 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 34.1% | #429 of 581 | #21 of 43 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -2.7% | #399 of 440 | #35 of 37 |
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
716
-43 (-6%) vs 2020
-10% since 2000-01, when it was 799
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 | 716 | 55.6 | 12.9:1 | 34% (244) |
| 2023-24 | 692 | 56.4 | 12.3:1 | 37% (258) |
| 2022-23 | 682 | 60.1 | 11.3:1 | 36% (246) |
| 2020-21 | 759 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 736 | 54.7 | 13.5:1 | 33% (242) |
| 2015-16 | 773 | 52 | 14.9:1 | 26% (201) |
| 2010-11 | 718 | 46 | 15.6:1 | 25% (178) |
| 2000-01 | 799 | 52 | 15.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Monroe Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students down 3% (736 to 716); teachers up 2% (54.7 to 55.6).
About Monroe Middle School
Monroe Middle School is listed by the National Center for Education Statistics as a middle-grades school in Wheaton, Illinois. A federal count lists 716 students at the school, in grades 6 through 8. An average school in this group (middle schools in Illinois) has about 462 students.
CUSD 200 has 11,639 students in 20 schools, and Monroe Middle School is one of those schools.
White students make up a majority at Monroe Middle School, at 58%. Other students are 18% Hispanic, 9% Asian, 9% Black, and 5% multiracial. Pick two students at random and there is a 61% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
The school's student-to-teacher ratio is about 12.9:1, with 55.6 full-time-equivalent teachers. For comparison, middle schools in Illinois average 13.0:1. Students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch make up 34% of enrollment. For comparison, public schools in DuPage County average 34%.
Predicted from its free or reduced-price lunch share, Monroe Middle School would score about 51.8%. It scores 66.8%, a top-10% result among Illinois schools on BeatsExpectations.
Within DuPage County, the median household income is $112,096, 52% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Besides Monroe Middle School, DuPage County has 276 other public schools.
Jefferson Early Childhood Center is the public school closest to Monroe Middle School, about 0.3 miles away. The five-mile area around Monroe Middle School holds at least 8 other public schools. On average proficiency, Monroe Middle School is 6th of 8 nearby schools with test data.
Monroe Middle School is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more, a location NCES labels Suburb: Large.
The school enrolled 716 students in 2024-25, 43 fewer than the 759 it had in 2020-21.
Conversations here can range across enrollment questions, class placement, and PTA news. Reviews and ratings from people who know the school are welcome.
DuPage County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
930,024
Census ACS
Median income
$112,096
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
52%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
277
138,557 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in CUSD 200
- Wheaton Warrenville South High SchoolHigh · 1,864 students
- Wheaton North High SchoolHigh · 1,863 students
- Hubble Middle SchoolMiddle · 679 students
- Edison Middle SchoolMiddle · 635 students
- Pleasant Hill Elementary SchoolElementary · 583 students
- Franklin Middle SchoolMiddle · 525 students
Other schools in Wheaton
- Wheaton Warrenville South High SchoolHigh · 1,864 students
- Wheaton North High SchoolHigh · 1,863 students
- Edison Middle SchoolMiddle · 635 students
- Franklin Middle SchoolMiddle · 525 students
- Briar Glen Elementary SchoolElementary · 523 students
- Wiesbrook Elementary SchoolElementary · 496 students
Other Monroe Middle schools
6 other US public schools in 7 states are named Monroe Middle. Monroe Middle School is the 2nd largest of the 7.
- Monroe MiddleMonroe, NC · 802 students
- MONROE MIDDLE SCHOOLOMAHA, NE · 716 students
- Monroe MiddleSan Jose, CA · 677 students
- Monroe Middle SchoolMONROE, MI · 674 students
- Monroe Middle SchoolEugene, OR · 519 students
Nearby schools
- Jefferson Early Childhood Center0.3 mi · 302
- Emerson Elementary School0.5 mi · 263
- Carl Sandburg Elementary School0.8 mi · 402
- Longfellow Elementary School1.0 mi · 318
- Madison Elementary School1.2 mi · 360
- Wheaton North High School1.3 mi · 1,863
Frequently asked questions
About Monroe Middle SchoolHow large is Monroe Middle School?
Monroe Middle School enrolls approximately 716 students in grades 06-08.
What age range does Monroe Middle School serve?
Monroe Middle School serves students from grade 06 through grade 08.
How many students per teacher at Monroe Middle School?
Approximately 12.9:1 students per teacher at Monroe Middle School.
What is the student diversity at Monroe Middle School?
Student demographics at Monroe Middle School are roughly 58% White, 18% Hispanic, 9% Black, 9% Asian, 5% Two or more.
What district is Monroe Middle School in?
Monroe Middle School is part of CUSD 200.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.