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Enrollment
1,090
Middle
DISTRICT 485 · STATE 462
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·OAK LAWN-HOMETOWN SD 123·NCES 172919005184
Oak Lawn-Hometown Middle School
5345 W 99th St, Oak Lawn, IL 60453 · (708) 499-6400 · Cook County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL1,090 STUDENTS
B+
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Scored higher than 71% of Illinois public middle schools
- B+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
14.7:1
74 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.3:1 · STATE 13.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
48%
527 students
DISTRICT 50% · 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 | 358 | 33% |
| Grade 7 | 346 | 32% |
| Grade 8 | 386 | 35% |
Student demographics
62%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 61% · 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
School pathway
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within Oak Lawn-Hometown SD 123. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
IAR + ISA 2024-25 . % Proficient (Levels 4-5)English Language Arts
70.0%
IL avg 51.0% . +6.3pp since 2023
Math
35.2%
IL avg 37.9% . +6.2pp since 2023
What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 70 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 35 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 6 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 6 points.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 70.0% | 35.2% |
| 2023-24 | 63.7% | 29.0% |
% 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
51.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
43.6%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+8.1pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 52% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 44% 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 Oak Lawn-Hometown Middle School
Oak Lawn-Hometown Middle School's state test result (51.7% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oak Lawn-Hometown Middle School this school | 1,090 | 48.3% | 51.7% |
| Thompson Jr High School Oswego | 832 | 42.1% | 37.4% |
| Troy Middle School Plainfield | 881 | 44.8% | 49.1% |
| Winston Campus Middle School Palatine | 847 | 49.9% | 28.9% |
| Orenic Intermediate School Plainfield | 812 | 48.8% | 44.7% |
| Peter J Palombi School Lake Villa | 844 | 45.3% | 37.0% |
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 Oak Lawn-Hometown Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Illinois | In Cook County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 51.7% | #176 of 578 | #25 of 116 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 35.2% | #290 of 640 ▼ 33 | #65 of 146 ▼ 6 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 70.0% | #181 of 640 ▼ 31 | #48 of 146 ▼ 7 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,090 | #18 of 691 | #4 of 148 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.7:1 | #429 of 558 | #110 of 138 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 62.4% | #122 of 560 | #36 of 138 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 48.3% | #307 of 581 | #88 of 117 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +0.4% | #126 of 127 | #40 of 40 |
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
1,090
-44 (-4%) vs 2020
+128% since 1990-91, 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 | 1,090 | 74.1 | 14.7:1 | 48% (527) |
| 2023-24 | 1,087 | 72 | 15.1:1 | 53% (580) |
| 2022-23 | 1,121 | 71.2 | 15.8:1 | 51% (567) |
| 2020-21 | 1,134 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 1,086 | 71.6 | 15.2:1 | 42% (452) |
| 2015-16 | 1,066 | 67 | 15.9:1 | 41% (439) |
| 2010-11 | 1,044 | 67 | 15.6:1 | 38% (393) |
| 2000-01 | 599 | 40 | 15.0:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 479 | 32 | 15.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Oak Lawn-Hometown Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students unchanged (1,086 to 1,090); teachers up 3% (71.6 to 74.1).
About Oak Lawn-Hometown Middle School
Oak Lawn-Hometown Middle School is a large middle school in Oak Lawn, Illinois, administered by Oak Lawn-Hometown SD 123. Its 1,090 students are spread across grades 6 through 8. The school's enrollment is 136% above the 462 average for middle schools in Illinois.
Federal data list 7 schools in Oak Lawn-Hometown SD 123, with 3,395 students enrolled.
No single group makes up more than half of enrollment at Oak Lawn-Hometown Middle School. The largest is Hispanic students, at 48%. Other students are 37% White, 10% Black, 3% Asian, and 3% multiracial. That is higher than the 27% Hispanic share among all Cook County residents. Pick two students at random and there is a 62% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
Oak Lawn-Hometown Middle School employs 74.1 full-time-equivalent teachers. That gives a ratio of about 14.7:1. This ratio sits 1.7 above the 13.0:1 average for middle schools in Illinois. Federal records put free or reduced-price lunch eligibility at 48%. That is lower than the 66% average for public schools in Cook County.
Oak Lawn-Hometown Middle School is graded B+ by allk12, scoring above 71% of Illinois public middle schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
A school with Oak Lawn-Hometown Middle School's lunch-eligibility share in Illinois is predicted to score 43.6%. Oak Lawn-Hometown Middle School scores 51.7%, 8.1 points above that line.
Among Cook County residents, the median household income is $83,498, roughly 43% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 10%. Oak Lawn-Hometown Middle School is one of 1,406 public schools in the county.
The shortest distance from Oak Lawn-Hometown Middle School to another public school is about 0.5 miles, to Sward Elementary School. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Of the 9 nearby schools with scores, including this one, Oak Lawn-Hometown Middle School is 3rd on average proficiency.
The school's setting, by NCES definition, is Suburb: Large: in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
The school enrolled 1,090 students in 2024-25, 44 fewer than the 1,134 it had in 2020-21.
Families, students, and staff can use this page to discuss school safety, transportation, and start times at Oak Lawn-Hometown Middle School. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
Cook County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
5,182,090
Census ACS
Median income
$83,498
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
43%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
1,406
697,934 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Oak Lawn-Hometown SD 123
- J Covington Elementary SchoolElementary · 470 students
- Sward Elementary SchoolElementary · 457 students
- J M Hannum Elementary SchoolElementary · 410 students
- Kolmar Avenue Elementary SchoolElementary · 391 students
- Hometown Elementary SchoolElementary · 338 students
- SD 123 Early Learning CenterElementary · 239 students
Other schools in Oak Lawn
- Oak Lawn Comm High SchoolHigh · 1,867 students
- H L Richards High School(Campus)High · 1,702 students
- Simmons Middle SchoolMiddle · 725 students
- Harnew Elementary SchoolElementary · 512 students
- J Covington Elementary SchoolElementary · 470 students
- Sward Elementary SchoolElementary · 457 students
Nearby schools
- Sward Elementary School0.5 mi · 457
- Columbus Manor Elementary School0.8 mi · 359
- Ridge Lawn Elementary School0.9 mi · 572
- H L Richards High School(Campus)0.9 mi · 1,702
- Oak Lawn Comm High School1.0 mi · 1,867
- J Covington Elementary School1.0 mi · 470
Frequently asked questions
About Oak Lawn-Hometown Middle SchoolHow many students attend Oak Lawn-Hometown Middle School?
Oak Lawn-Hometown Middle School enrolls approximately 1,090 students in grades 06-08.
Is Oak Lawn-Hometown Middle School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Oak Lawn-Hometown Middle School is a middle school covering grades 06-08.
How many teachers does Oak Lawn-Hometown Middle School have?
Oak Lawn-Hometown Middle School employs 74 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 14.7:1.
How diverse is Oak Lawn-Hometown Middle School?
Oak Lawn-Hometown Middle School reports a student body of 37% White, 48% Hispanic, 10% Black, 3% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Is Oak Lawn-Hometown Middle School public or private?
Oak Lawn-Hometown Middle School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Oak Lawn-Hometown SD 123.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.