North Mac Middle School

North Mac Middle School is one of the cozy junior highs in Girard, Illinois, run under North Mac CUSD 34, with 228 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 51% smaller than the state mean of about 462.

Across the 4 schools in North Mac CUSD 34 (1,155 students total), North Mac Middle School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, North Mac Middle School lists that 91% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest reads as 5% multiracial, 4% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

In terms of school funding signals, North Mac Middle School lists 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.6:1. The state averages around 13.0:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 54% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, North Mac Middle School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 40.1%; this one delivers 28.1%.

In the surrounding community, census data for Macoupin County shows median household earnings sit near $70,805, 20% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. North Mac Middle School is one of 28 public schools in Macoupin County (combined enrollment of about 7,221 students).

North Mac Intermediate is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around North Mac Middle School. On composite proficiency, North Mac Middle School comes 6th of 6 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 39.1%.

North Mac Middle School operates from an outlying location.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at North Mac Middle School has decreased 25%, going from 302 students in 2018 to 228 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 97% to 91% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 15.9:1 in 2018 to 11.6:1 today.

In the discussion threads here, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.