Prairie View Middle School

Prairie View Middle School is a mid-sized 6-8 campus in Tinley Park, Illinois, one of the schools within Kirby SD 140. The school caters to 579 students in grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Illinois's public schools average about 462 students each, so Prairie View Middle School sits 25% above that benchmark.

Within Kirby SD 140, which oversees 7 schools and 3,495 students, Prairie View Middle School is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, Prairie View Middle School logs that 74% of the student body identifies as White. Other groups include 13% Hispanic, 6% Black, 4% Asian, 2% multiracial. That is considerably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 44%.

On the resource side, The school employs 49 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.8:1. The state averages around 13.0:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Cook County) records that median household earnings sit near $83,498, roughly 43% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Cook County runs 1406 public schools (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students), of which Prairie View Middle School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Millennium Elem School, around 0.5 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 6%: 614 students in 2018 compared to 579 in 2025. The White share of enrollment contracted from 82% to 74% over that span.

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