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Enrollment
540
Middle
DISTRICT 602 · STATE 462
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NORTH SHORE SD 112·NCES 170011902198
Northwood Middle School
945 North Ave, Highland Park, IL 60035 · (224) 765-3600 · Lake County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL540 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 79% of Illinois public middle schools
- A-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A-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
10.5:1
51 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.8:1 · STATE 13.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
37%
201 students
DISTRICT 40% · STATE 56%
Community
5
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 | 159 | 29% |
| Grade 7 | 183 | 34% |
| Grade 8 | 198 | 37% |
Student demographics
60%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 49% · 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
72.9%
IL avg 51.0% . +20.5pp since 2023
Math
51.0%
IL avg 37.9% . +11.2pp since 2023
What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 73 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 51 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 21 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 11 points.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 72.9% | 51.0% |
| 2023-24 | 52.4% | 39.8% |
% 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
59.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
50.0%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+9.0pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 59% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 50% 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 Northwood Middle School
Northwood Middle School's state test result (59.0% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Northwood Middle School this school | 540 | 37.2% | 59.0% |
| Grayslake Middle School Grayslake | 641 | 36.0% | 46.0% |
| Northwood Middle School Woodstock | 576 | 43.2% | 54.7% |
| Frederick School Grayslake | 667 | 34.8% | 47.7% |
| Plank Junior High Oswego | 595 | 36.8% | 42.2% |
| Matthews Middle School Island Lake | 451 | 43.7% | 40.0% |
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 Northwood Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Illinois | In Lake County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 59.0% | #103 of 578 | #4 of 31 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 51.0% | #134 of 640 ▲ 23 | #15 of 44 ▲ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 72.9% | #147 of 640 ▲ 114 | #15 of 44 ▲ 5 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 540 | #256 of 691 | #25 of 44 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.5:1 | #65 of 558 | #12 of 44 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 59.9% | #156 of 560 | #12 of 44 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 37.2% | #403 of 581 | #20 of 31 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +9.5% | #54 of 127 | #4 of 9 |
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
540
+24 (+5%) vs 2020
+13% since 2000-01, when it was 479
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 | 540 | 51.3 | 10.5:1 | 37% (201) |
| 2023-24 | 532 | 49.3 | 10.8:1 | 42% (221) |
| 2022-23 | 478 | 50.1 | 9.5:1 | 45% (213) |
| 2020-21 | 516 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 493 | 43.8 | 11.3:1 | 48% (238) |
| 2015-16 | 519 | 44 | 11.8:1 | 40% (210) |
| 2010-11 | 467 | 44 | 10.6:1 | 43% (199) |
| 2000-01 | 479 | 39 | 12.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Northwood Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students up 10% (493 to 540); teachers up 17% (43.8 to 51.3).
About Northwood Middle School
This page covers Northwood Middle School, a medium-sized middle school in Highland Park, Illinois. Enrollment in 2024-25 was 540 students in grades 6 through 8.
Northwood Middle School falls under North Shore SD 112, which has 9 schools enrolling 3,730 students.
No single group makes up more than half of enrollment at Northwood Middle School. The largest is White students, at 46%. Smaller groups are 43% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, and 3% Asian. For comparison, the population of Lake County is roughly 61% White. The school's diversity index is 60%, meaning two students picked at random have a 60% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.
The school has about 10.5 students per teacher and 51.3 full-time-equivalent teachers. This ratio sits 2.5 below the 13.0:1 average for middle schools in Illinois. Federal records put free or reduced-price lunch eligibility at 37%. That rate is below the 54% average among public schools in Lake County.
Measured against Illinois public middle schools, Northwood Middle School receives an A-. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
A school with Northwood Middle School's lunch-eligibility share in Illinois is predicted to score 50.0%. Northwood Middle School scores 59.0%, 9.0 points above that line.
Northwood Middle School is located in Lake County, where the median household income is $110,416, roughly 48% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 6%. Northwood Middle School is one of 214 public schools in the county.
Wayne Thomas Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles away. The five-mile area around Northwood Middle School holds at least 8 other public schools.
Locale: Suburb: Large. In NCES terms, the school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
The school enrolled 540 students in 2024-25, 24 more than the 516 it had in 2020-21.
Threads on this page can be about sports schedules, lunch menus, and spirit week. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
Lake County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
714,223
Census ACS
Median income
$110,416
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
48%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
214
118,032 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in North Shore SD 112
- Edgewood Middle SchoolMiddle · 663 students
- Oak Terrace Elementary SchoolElementary · 494 students
- Indian Trail Elementary SchoolElementary · 472 students
- Wayne Thomas Elementary SchoolElementary · 449 students
- Sherwood Elementary SchoolElementary · 342 students
- Ravinia Elementary SchoolElementary · 285 students
Other schools in Highland Park
- Highland Park High SchoolHigh · 1,661 students
- Edgewood Middle SchoolMiddle · 663 students
- Indian Trail Elementary SchoolElementary · 472 students
- Wayne Thomas Elementary SchoolElementary · 449 students
- Sherwood Elementary SchoolElementary · 342 students
- Ravinia Elementary SchoolElementary · 285 students
Other Northwood Middle schools
7 other US public schools in 6 states are named Northwood Middle. Northwood Middle School is the 7th largest of the 8.
- Northwood Middle SchoolWoodstock, IL · 576 students
- Northwood Middle SchoolRenton, WA · 911 students
- Northwood MiddleTaylors, SC · 823 students
- Northwood Middle SchoolSPOKANE, WA · 796 students
- Northwood Middle SchoolElyria, OH · 599 students
Nearby schools
- Wayne Thomas Elementary School0.1 mi · 449
- Oak Terrace Elementary School0.5 mi · 494
- Highland Park High School1.3 mi · 1,661
- Ravinia Elementary School1.5 mi · 285
- Indian Trail Elementary School1.6 mi · 472
- Cherokee Elementary School1.6 mi · 343
Frequently asked questions
About Northwood Middle SchoolHow large is Northwood Middle School?
Northwood Middle School enrolls approximately 540 students in grades 06-08.
What age range does Northwood Middle School serve?
Northwood Middle School serves students from grade 06 through grade 08.
How many students per teacher at Northwood Middle School?
Approximately 10.5:1 students per teacher at Northwood Middle School.
How diverse is Northwood Middle School?
Northwood Middle School reports a student body of 46% White, 43% Hispanic, 1% Black, 3% Asian, 6% Two or more.
What district is Northwood Middle School in?
Northwood Middle School is part of North Shore SD 112.
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