Nippersink Middle School

Set in Richmond, Illinois, Nippersink Middle School is a cozy junior high, one of the schools within Nippersink SD 2. It hosts 377 students across grades 6 through 8.

Across the 3 schools in Nippersink SD 2 (1,111 students total), Nippersink Middle School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, Nippersink Middle School shows that 84% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 11% Hispanic, 5% multiracial.

On the resource side, Nippersink Middle School logs 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.6:1. The state averages about 13.0:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 25% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, McHenry County runs at roughly 35%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Nippersink Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 57.1%, the actual is 53.0%, a residual of -4.1 points.

In the area at large, census data for McHenry County shows the typical household earns roughly $104,802 per year, roughly 35% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. Across McHenry County's 89 public schools (combined enrollment of about 50,123 students), Nippersink Middle School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Richmond Grade School, around 0.5 miles off. 7 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Nippersink Middle School comes 3rd of 6 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 50.6%.

The school occupies a town-center site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 13%: 433 students in 2018 compared to 377 in 2025.

Inside the community feed, posts here usually surface around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.