Enrollment
334
Middle
DISTRICT 333 · STATE 462
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·COOK COUNTY SD 130·NCES 170651000334
Nathan Hale Middle School
5220 135th St, Crestwood, IL 60445 · (708) 385-6690 · Cook County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL334 STUDENTS
C-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 19% of Illinois public middle schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C+Beats 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
11.1:1
30 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.2:1 · STATE 13.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
65%
218 students
DISTRICT 77% · STATE 56%
Community
0
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 | 95 | 28% |
| Grade 7 | 119 | 36% |
| Grade 8 | 120 | 36% |
Student demographics
64%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 52% · 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
38.9%
IL avg 51.0% . +6.5pp since 2023
Math
20.2%
IL avg 37.9% . +8.2pp since 2023
What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 39 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 20 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 7 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 8 points.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 38.9% | 20.2% |
| 2023-24 | 32.4% | 12.0% |
% 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
29.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
33.8%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-4.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 29% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 34% typical for Illinois schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Illinois's top nor bottom 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 Nathan Hale Middle School
Nathan Hale Middle School's state test result (29.3% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nathan Hale Middle School this school | 334 | 65.3% | 29.3% |
| Plano Middle School Plano | 358 | 57.3% | 33.5% |
| Viking School Gurnee | 461 | 54.4% | 22.1% |
| Jefferson Middle School Villa Park | 375 | 59.5% | 31.7% |
| Prairie Jr High School Alsip | 303 | 53.1% | 45.3% |
| Hubert H Humphrey Middle School Bolingbrook | 596 | 62.1% | 42.5% |
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 Nathan Hale Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Illinois | In Cook County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 29.3% | #447 of 578 | #74 of 116 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 20.2% | #478 of 640 ▲ 25 | #99 of 146 ▲ 10 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 38.9% | #504 of 640 ▼ 27 | #106 of 146 ▼ 8 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 334 | #421 of 691 | #112 of 148 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.1:1 | #101 of 558 | #39 of 138 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 63.7% | #103 of 560 | #30 of 138 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 65.3% | #132 of 581 | #52 of 117 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -17.7% | #129 of 440 | #32 of 97 |
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
334
-54 (-14%) vs 2020
-34% since 1990-91, when it was 508
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 | 334 | 30 | 11.1:1 | 65% (218) |
| 2023-24 | 338 | 33.2 | 10.2:1 | 74% (250) |
| 2022-23 | 335 | 32.5 | 10.3:1 | 79% (266) |
| 2020-21 | 388 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 406 | 32.6 | 12.4:1 | 61% (246) |
| 2015-16 | 390 | 32 | 12.2:1 | 92% (359) |
| 2010-11 | 347 | 32 | 10.8:1 | 77% (268) |
| 2000-01 | 430 | 33 | 13.0:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 508 | 34 | 14.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Nathan Hale Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students down 18% (406 to 334); teachers down 8% (32.6 to 30).
About Nathan Hale Middle School
Nathan Hale Middle School serves students in Crestwood, Illinois, as a small middle school. It serves 334 students in grades 6 through 8. For comparison, middle schools in Illinois average about 462 students.
Cook County SD 130 has a total of 11 schools and 2,950 students, Nathan Hale Middle School among them.
Hispanic students are the largest group at Nathan Hale Middle School, with 50% of enrollment. The rest of enrollment is 25% White and 22% Black. Among all residents of Cook County, the Hispanic share is about 27%. By the diversity index, Nathan Hale Middle School comes in at 64%.
The teaching staff at Nathan Hale Middle School is 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the ratio is 11.1:1. That ratio is under the 13.0:1 average for middle schools in Illinois. The percentage of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch is 65%. That is close to the 66% average for public schools in Cook County.
The allk12 Grade for Nathan Hale Middle School is C-. Compared with Illinois public middle schools, the school scored higher than 19% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
Nathan Hale Middle School scores 29.3% on state tests, averaged across results. The predicted figure, based on its student poverty level, is 33.8%.
Nathan Hale Middle School is located in Cook County, where median household income is about $83,498, 43% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 10% of people live in poverty. Federal data list 1,406 public schools in Cook County, with a combined enrollment of about 697,934.
The closest public school, Nathan Hale Intermediate, is less than a tenth of a mile from Nathan Hale Middle School. Within five miles are at least 8 other public schools. On state test proficiency, Nathan Hale Middle School ranks 3rd in a group of 6 nearby schools.
The federal government classifies Nathan Hale Middle School's location as Suburb: Large.
Nathan Hale Middle School had 388 students in 2020-21 and 334 in 2024-25, a 14% decrease.
Discussions about Nathan Hale Middle School may include school safety, transportation, and start times. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
Cook County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
5,182,090
Census ACS
Median income
$83,498
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
43%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
1,406
697,934 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Cook County SD 130
- Veterans Memorial Middle SchoolMiddle · 361 students
- Lincoln Elementary SchoolElementary · 342 students
- Nathan Hale Primary SchoolElementary · 334 students
- Paul Revere Primary SchoolElementary · 318 students
- Everett F Kerr Middle SchoolMiddle · 304 students
- George Washington Elementary SchoolElementary · 270 students
Other schools in Crestwood
- Nathan Hale Primary SchoolElementary · 334 students
- Nathan Hale IntermediateElementary · 175 students
- Turner Elementary SchoolElementary · 148 students
- Delta Learning CenterHigh
- Care ProgramElementary
- Eisenhower Coop-DHH ProgramElementary
Other Nathan Hale Middle schools
2 other US public schools in 3 states are named Nathan Hale Middle. Nathan Hale Middle School is the 3rd largest of the 3.
- Nathan Hale Middle SchoolTulsa, OK · 782 students
- Nathan Hale Middle SchoolNorwalk, CT · 499 students
Nearby schools
- Nathan Hale Intermediate0.1 mi · 175
- Nathan Hale Primary School0.1 mi · 334
- Indian Hill1.2 mi · 183
- Kolmar Elementary School1.4 mi · 535
- A B Shepard High School (Campus)1.4 mi · 1,916
- Chippewa Elementary School1.5 mi · 237
Frequently asked questions
About Nathan Hale Middle SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Nathan Hale Middle School?
Nathan Hale Middle School enrolls approximately 334 students in grades 06-08.
What age range does Nathan Hale Middle School serve?
Nathan Hale Middle School serves students from grade 06 through grade 08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Nathan Hale Middle School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Nathan Hale Middle School is approximately 11.1:1 (30 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Nathan Hale Middle School?
At Nathan Hale Middle School, the student body is approximately 25% White, 50% Hispanic, 22% Black, 2% Asian, 1% Two or more.
Who oversees Nathan Hale Middle School?
Nathan Hale Middle School is overseen by Cook County SD 130 in Cook County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.