Rolling Acres Middle School

Rolling Acres Middle School is one of the rural-scale senior highs in Peoria, Illinois, overseen by Peoria SD 150, with 321 students on its rolls from grades 5 through 12. By comparison, Illinois's public schools average about 834 students each, so Rolling Acres Middle School sits 62% smaller than that benchmark.

Peoria SD 150 runs 25 schools in total, collectively educating 13,312 students. Rolling Acres Middle School is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Rolling Acres Middle School shows that the most-represented group is Black (51%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school shows 24% White, 12% multiracial, 11% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 17% Black, putting the school's mix considerably more Black than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Rolling Acres Middle School lists 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.7:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.8:1 average. About 72% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Peoria County runs at roughly 57%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Rolling Acres Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 29.8%, the actual is 23.2%, a residual of -6.5 points.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Peoria County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $65,108 per year, about 35% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Peoria County's 81 public schools (combined enrollment of about 27,827 students), Rolling Acres Middle School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Northmoor Primary School, around 0.4 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Rolling Acres Middle School ranks 8th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 32.3%.

Rolling Acres Middle School operates from a metropolitan location.

Over the past 7-year window. Rolling Acres Middle School's enrollment has contracted 4% since 2018, when it stood at 334 (now 321). Over the same period, the Black share rose from 41% to 51%.

On allk12, members of the Rolling Acres Middle School community share and discuss school events, parent volunteer needs, and clubs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.