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Enrollment
460
Middle
DISTRICT 359 · STATE 462
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·WILL COUNTY SD 92·NCES 172373001008
Oak Prairie Jr High School
15161 S Gougar Rd, Homer Glen, IL 60491 · (815) 836-2724 · Will County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL460 STUDENTS
A
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Scored higher than 88% of Illinois public middle schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats 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
10.7:1
43 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.6:1 · STATE 13.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
29%
133 students
DISTRICT 31% · STATE 56%
Community
6
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 | 165 | 36% |
| Grade 7 | 146 | 32% |
| Grade 8 | 149 | 32% |
Student demographics
38%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 38% · 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 Will County SD 92. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
IAR + ISA 2024-25 . % Proficient (Levels 4-5)English Language Arts
86.6%
IL avg 51.0% . +5.1pp since 2023
Math
50.2%
IL avg 37.9% . +14.4pp since 2023
What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 87 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 50 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 5 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 14 points.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 86.6% | 50.2% |
| 2023-24 | 81.5% | 35.8% |
% 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
66.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
54.8%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+11.6pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 66% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 55% 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 Prairie Jr High School
Oak Prairie Jr High School's state test result (66.4% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oak Prairie Jr High School this school | 460 | 28.9% | 66.4% |
| Stephen Mack Middle School Rockton | 552 | 29.7% | 61.4% |
| Coal City Middle School Coal City | 454 | 31.1% | 67.5% |
| Johnsburg Jr High School Johnsburg | 373 | 31.4% | 31.9% |
| Roscoe Middle School Roscoe | 596 | 31.2% | 61.7% |
| Manteno Middle School Manteno | 520 | 33.8% | 51.7% |
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 Prairie Jr High School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Illinois | In Will County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 66.4% | #56 of 578 | #7 of 39 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 50.2% | #141 of 640 ▲ 44 | #21 of 44 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 86.6% | #30 of 640 ▼ 7 | #3 of 44 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 460 | #317 of 691 | #34 of 44 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.7:1 | #72 of 558 | #6 of 44 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 37.7% | #348 of 560 | #29 of 44 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 28.9% | #468 of 581 | #23 of 39 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -20.8% | #87 of 440 | #10 of 36 |
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
460
-42 (-8%) vs 2020
-16% since 2000-01, when it was 549
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 | 460 | 43 | 10.7:1 | 29% (133) |
| 2023-24 | 457 | 45 | 10.2:1 | 30% (137) |
| 2022-23 | 452 | 42 | 10.8:1 | 24% (109) |
| 2020-21 | 502 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 581 | 45 | 12.9:1 | 21% (121) |
| 2015-16 | 573 | 46 | 12.5:1 | 15% (85) |
| 2010-11 | 628 | 45 | 14.0:1 | 14% (91) |
| 2000-01 | 549 | 28 | 19.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Oak Prairie Jr High School.
Since 2017-18: students down 21% (581 to 460); teachers down 4% (45 to 43).
About Oak Prairie Jr High School
Students in Homer Glen, Illinois, attend Oak Prairie Jr High School, a mid-sized middle school. In all, 460 students attend the school in grades 6 through 8.
Across its 4 schools, Will County SD 92 enrolls 1,435 students. Oak Prairie Jr High School is one of those schools.
At Oak Prairie Jr High School, 77% of students are White. Other students are 17% Hispanic and 4% multiracial. That is higher than the 62% White share among all Will County residents. The diversity index for Oak Prairie Jr High School is 38%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
The school has 43 full-time-equivalent teachers and a ratio of 10.7 students per teacher. The average for middle schools in Illinois is 13.0:1, so this school has fewer students per teacher. The school reported 29% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024-25. It compares with 44% for public schools in Will County.
Among Illinois public middle schools, Oak Prairie Jr High School outscored 88%, which works out to an A on the allk12 Grade.
Compared with Illinois schools that have similar shares of low-income students, Oak Prairie Jr High School's results are 11.6 points above predicted: 66.4% against 54.8%.
In Will County, the median household earns about $109,984 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 38%, and roughly 6% of residents are in poverty. Across Will County, 209 public schools serve about 113,008 students.
Walsh Elementary School is about 1.6 miles away, making it the nearest public school. Within five miles of Oak Prairie Jr High School, there are at least 8 other public schools. Compared with its nearest neighbors, Oak Prairie Jr High School ranks 1st of 4 on average proficiency.
Federal data place Oak Prairie Jr High School in the Suburb: Large locale, which means it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
The school's enrollment decreased 8% from 2020-21 to 2024-25.
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Will County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
701,462
Census ACS
Median income
$109,984
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
38%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
209
113,008 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Will County SD 92
- Walsh Elementary SchoolElementary · 363 students
- Ludwig Elementary SchoolElementary · 321 students
- Reed Elementary SchoolElementary · 291 students
Other schools in Homer Glen
- Homer Jr High SchoolMiddle · 865 students
- Hadley Middle SchoolMiddle · 834 students
- Luther J Schilling SchoolElementary · 587 students
- William E Young SchoolElementary · 452 students
- Goodings Grove SchoolElementary · 409 students
- Reed Elementary SchoolElementary · 291 students
Nearby schools
- Walsh Elementary School1.6 mi · 363
- Reed Elementary School1.6 mi · 291
- Luther J Schilling School1.7 mi · 587
- William E Young School1.8 mi · 452
- Lockport Township High School East1.9 mi · 3,678
- Ludwig Elementary School2.2 mi · 321
Frequently asked questions
About Oak Prairie Jr High SchoolHow large is Oak Prairie Jr High School?
Oak Prairie Jr High School enrolls approximately 460 students in grades 06-08.
Is Oak Prairie Jr High School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Oak Prairie Jr High School is a middle school covering grades 06-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Oak Prairie Jr High School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Oak Prairie Jr High School is approximately 10.7:1 (43 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Oak Prairie Jr High School?
At Oak Prairie Jr High School, the student body is approximately 77% White, 17% Hispanic, 1% Black, 1% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Who oversees Oak Prairie Jr High School?
Oak Prairie Jr High School is overseen by Will County SD 92 in Will County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.