Oliver McCracken Middle School

Set in Skokie, Illinois, Oliver McCracken Middle School is an intimate 6-8 campus, one of the schools within Skokie SD 73-5. It enrolls 340 students across grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Illinois's public schools average about 462 students each, so Oliver McCracken Middle School sits 26% below that benchmark.

Within Skokie SD 73-5, which oversees 3 schools and 1,065 students, Oliver McCracken Middle School is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Oliver McCracken Middle School lists that the most-represented group is White (33%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder looks like 32% Asian, 14% Hispanic, 10% Black, 7% multiracial. By comparison, Cook County as a whole is about 44% White, so the school skews noticeably less White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 9.4:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.0:1, putting Oliver McCracken Middle School tighter than the state norm the norm. About 34% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Cook County runs at roughly 66%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Oliver McCracken Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 52.0%, the actual is 62.5%, a residual of +10.5 points.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Cook County put the typical household earns roughly $83,498 per year, about 43% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Oliver McCracken Middle School is one of 1406 public schools in Cook County (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students).

The closest other public school is Elizabeth Meyer School, roughly 0.4 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Oliver McCracken Middle School comes 1st of 7 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 47.4%.

The campus sits in a city-core setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Oliver McCracken Middle School's enrollment has shrank 6% since 2018, when it stood at 360 (now 340). The White share of enrollment declined from 37% to 33% over that span. Class-load math has tightened: from 11.7:1 in 2018 to 9.4:1 in 2025.

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