Northlake Middle School

Northlake Middle School operates as an intimate intermediate school in Northlake, Illinois, operated by Berkeley SD 87. Current enrollment sits at 378 students spanning grades 6 through 8.

Berkeley SD 87 runs 6 schools in total, collectively educating 2,147 students. Northlake Middle School is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Northlake Middle School logs that 94% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. The remainder breaks down as 3% White. The wider county runs roughly 27% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.4:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 13.0:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 84% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Cook County runs at roughly 66%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Northlake Middle School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 22.8% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 26.4%.

In the area at large, census data for Cook County shows the typical household earns roughly $83,498 per year, about 43% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Cook County's 1406 public schools (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students), Northlake Middle School is one campus in the mix.

J W Riley Intermediate School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Northlake Middle School comes 4th of 7 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 35.7%.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 19%: 469 students in 2018 compared to 378 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment grew from 90% to 94% over that span. Class-load math has tightened: from 15.3:1 in 2018 to 12.4:1 in 2025.

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