Sandburg Middle School

Sandburg Middle School operates as a medium-sized middle-grades school in Elmhurst, Illinois, operated by Elmhurst SD 205. Current enrollment sits at 633 students spanning grades 6 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 462 students per school, that is 37% bigger than typical.

Elmhurst SD 205 runs 13 schools in total, collectively educating 8,280 students. Sandburg Middle School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Sandburg Middle School logs that White students make up the majority at 74%. Beyond that, the school shows 12% Hispanic, 6% Asian, 6% multiracial, 3% Black. That is noticeably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 65%.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Sandburg Middle School has 51 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.4:1. The state averages about 13.0:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 7% of students at Sandburg Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against DuPage County (around 34%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Sandburg Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 67.6%, the actual is 78.2%, a residual of +10.6 points.

In the broader community, census data for DuPage County shows median household income runs about $112,096, 52% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Sandburg Middle School is one of 277 public schools in DuPage County (combined enrollment of about 138,557 students).

Edison Elem School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Sandburg Middle School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Sandburg Middle School at 3rd of 8; the average score across the group is 63.2%.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Sandburg Middle School has ticked down 8%, going from 689 students in 2018 to 633 in 2025.

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