Northwood Middle School

Northwood Middle School is one of the mid-sized middle-grades schools in Highland Park, Illinois, overseen by North Shore SD 112, with 540 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8.

North Shore SD 112 runs 9 schools in total, collectively educating 3,730 students. Northwood Middle School is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Northwood Middle School logs that the most-represented group is White (46%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder comes out to 43% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 3% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 61% White, putting the school's mix considerably less White than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, The school currently runs with 51 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.5:1. The state averages around 13.0:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 37% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is lower than Lake County's rate of about 54%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Northwood Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.0%, the actual is 59.0%, a residual of +9.0 points.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Lake County indicate the typical household earns roughly $110,416 per year, about 48% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. In all, Lake County runs 214 public schools (combined enrollment of about 118,032 students), of which Northwood Middle School is one.

Wayne Thomas Elem School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Northwood Middle School.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Northwood Middle School's enrollment has expanded 10% since 2018, when it stood at 493 (now 540). Over the same period, the Hispanic share contracted from 48% to 43%.

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