Oak Prairie Jr High School

Set in Homer Glen, Illinois, Oak Prairie Jr High School is a mid-sized 6-8 campus, overseen by Will County SD 92. It hosts 460 students across grades 6 through 8.

Within Will County SD 92, which oversees 4 schools and 1,435 students, Oak Prairie Jr High School is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Oak Prairie Jr High School lists that the largest single group is White, at 77% of enrollment. Other groups include 17% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Will County as a whole is about 62% White, so the school skews meaningfully more White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, The school reports having 43 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.7:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.0:1 average. About 29% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Will County (around 44%), the school's rate is south of typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Oak Prairie Jr High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 54.8%, the actual is 66.4%, a residual of +11.6 points.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Will County put the typical household earns roughly $109,984 per year, roughly 38% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Oak Prairie Jr High School is one of 209 public schools in Will County (combined enrollment of about 113,008 students).

The closest other public school is Walsh Elem School, roughly 1.6 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Oak Prairie Jr High School. Among the 4 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Oak Prairie Jr High School ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 60.6%.

Oak Prairie Jr High School operates from a suburban location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 21%: 581 students in 2018 compared to 460 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 86% to 77% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 12.9:1 in 2018 to 10.7:1 in 2025.

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