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Enrollment
1,128
Middle
DISTRICT 749 · STATE 462
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PALATINE CCSD 15·NCES 173042003154
Plum Grove Middle School
2600 Plum Grove Rd, Rolling Meadows, IL 60008 · (847) 963-7600 · Cook County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL1,128 STUDENTS
B+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 73% 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.
- BBeats 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
16.6:1
68 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.5:1 · STATE 13.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
15%
168 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 | 390 | 35% |
| Grade 7 | 336 | 30% |
| Grade 8 | 402 | 36% |
Student demographics
63%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 69% · 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
74.6%
IL avg 51.0% . +11.1pp since 2023
Math
54.3%
IL avg 37.9% . -1.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 75 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 54 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 11 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 1 points.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 74.6% | 54.3% |
| 2023-24 | 63.5% | 55.3% |
% 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
64.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
62.9%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+1.5pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 64% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 63% 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 Plum Grove Middle School
Plum Grove Middle School's state test result (64.5% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Plum Grove Middle School this school | 1,128 | 14.9% | 64.5% |
| Gordon Gregory Middle School Naperville | 811 | 8.3% | 78.7% |
| Kennedy Junior High School Lisle | 937 | 11.1% | 84.0% |
| Thomas Jefferson Middle School Hoffman Est | 621 | 11.6% | N/A |
| Thayer J Hill Middle School Naperville | 828 | 25.2% | 59.7% |
| Dunlap Middle School Dunlap | 541 | 15.2% | 74.8% |
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 Plum Grove Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Illinois | In Cook County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 64.5% | #68 of 578 | #14 of 116 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 54.3% | #116 of 640 ▼ 63 | #36 of 146 ▼ 16 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 74.6% | #130 of 640 ▲ 24 | #37 of 146 ▲ 5 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,128 | #13 of 691 | #2 of 148 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.6:1 | #511 of 558 | #127 of 138 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 63.5% | #106 of 560 | #31 of 138 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 14.9% | #564 of 581 | #116 of 117 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +31.5% | #13 of 127 | #3 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
1,128
+266 (+31%) vs 2020
+72% since 1990-91, when it was 656
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 | 1,128 | 68.2 | 16.6:1 | 15% (168) |
| 2023-24 | 834 | 49.9 | 16.7:1 | 17% (143) |
| 2022-23 | 807 | 50.7 | 15.9:1 | 16% (126) |
| 2020-21 | 862 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 858 | 44.6 | 19.2:1 | 16% (134) |
| 2015-16 | 764 | 42 | 18.2:1 | 9% (68) |
| 2010-11 | 773 | 45 | 17.2:1 | 10% (78) |
| 2000-01 | 804 | 52 | 15.5:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 656 | 44 | 14.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Plum Grove Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students up 31% (858 to 1,128); teachers up 53% (44.6 to 68.2).
About Plum Grove Middle School
Plum Grove Middle School is a middle-grades school in Rolling Meadows, Illinois, reachable at (847) 963-7600. It offers grades 6 through 8 and has 1,128 students enrolled. Middle schools in Illinois have about 462 students on average; enrollment here is 144% higher.
Plum Grove Middle School is part of Palatine CCSD 15, where 20 schools serve 11,715 students.
The biggest share of students at Plum Grove Middle School, 48%, is White. Other reported shares: 35% Asian, 9% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, and 3% Black. The diversity index for Plum Grove Middle School is 63%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
Staffing at Plum Grove Middle School comes to 68.2 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 16.6:1. By comparison, the average for middle schools in Illinois is 13.0:1. Plum Grove Middle School counts 15% of students as eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The 66% average for public schools in Cook County is 51 points higher.
Among Illinois public middle schools, Plum Grove Middle School outscored 73%, which works out to a B+ on the allk12 Grade.
The model predicts 62.9% for a school in Illinois with Plum Grove Middle School's free or reduced-price lunch share. Plum Grove Middle School posts 64.5%.
In Cook County, where the school is located, median household income comes to about $83,498, about 43% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 10% of residents are in poverty. There are 1,406 public schools in the county, enrolling about 697,934, Plum Grove Middle School among them.
Plum Grove Middle School is about 1.0 miles from Pleasant Hill Elementary School, its nearest public school. Plum Grove Middle School has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Local comparison: Plum Grove Middle School ranks 3rd of 9 nearby schools, at 64.5% versus a 54.1% average.
NCES assigns Plum Grove Middle School the locale Suburb: Large, meaning in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
The 2020-21-to-2024-25 change in enrollment was a 31% rise, from 862 to 1,128.
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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 Palatine CCSD 15
- Winston Campus Middle SchoolMiddle · 847 students
- Lincoln Elementary SchoolElementary · 772 students
- Virginia Lake Elementary SchoolElementary · 717 students
- Walter R Sundling Middle SchoolMiddle · 679 students
- Frank C Whiteley Elementary SchoolElementary · 663 students
- Gray M Sanborn Elementary SchoolElementary · 661 students
Other schools in Rolling Meadows
- Rolling Meadows High SchoolHigh · 1,956 students
- Central Road Elementary SchoolElementary · 620 students
- Kimball Hill Elementary SchoolElementary · 524 students
- Willow Bend Elementary SchoolElementary · 519 students
- Carl Sandburg Middle SchoolMiddle · 468 students
- John G Conyers Learning AcademyElementary
Nearby schools
- Pleasant Hill Elementary School1.0 mi · 435
- Wm Fremd High School1.3 mi · 2,689
- Central Road Elementary School1.5 mi · 620
- Kimball Hill Elementary School1.5 mi · 524
- Hunting Ridge Elementary School1.5 mi · 639
- Carl Sandburg Middle School1.7 mi · 468
Frequently asked questions
About Plum Grove Middle SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Plum Grove Middle School?
Plum Grove Middle School enrolls approximately 1,128 students in grades 06-08.
What age range does Plum Grove Middle School serve?
Plum Grove Middle School serves students from grade 06 through grade 08.
How many teachers does Plum Grove Middle School have?
Plum Grove Middle School employs 68 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 16.6:1.
What is the student diversity at Plum Grove Middle School?
Student demographics at Plum Grove Middle School are roughly 48% White, 9% Hispanic, 3% Black, 35% Asian, 4% Two or more.
What district is Plum Grove Middle School in?
Plum Grove Middle School is part of Palatine CCSD 15.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.