Sandwich Middle School

Sandwich Middle School is one of the moderately sized middle-grades schools in Sandwich, Illinois, one of the schools within Sandwich CUSD 430, with 420 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8.

Across the 6 schools in Sandwich CUSD 430 (1,872 students total), Sandwich Middle School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Sandwich Middle School records that 73% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder comes out to 22% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.0:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. About 51% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Sandwich Middle School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 42.0%; this one delivers 44.4%.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for DeKalb County put median household income runs about $70,724, roughly 33% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across DeKalb County's 43 public schools (combined enrollment of about 16,328 students), Sandwich Middle School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Herman E Dummer, roughly 0.1 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Sandwich Middle School comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 55.4%.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 8%: 456 students in 2018 compared to 420 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 15% to 22% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 14.3:1 in 2018 to 13.0:1 today.

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