Spring Garden Middle School

Spring Garden Middle School is an one-room-style junior high in Ina, Illinois, operated by Spring Garden CCSD 178. The school works with 93 students in grades 5 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 80% smaller than the state mean of about 462.

Spring Garden CCSD 178 comprises 2 schools with combined enrollment of 217 students; Spring Garden Middle School is among them.

Demographically, Spring Garden Middle School records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (90%). Other groups include 5% multiracial, 4% Black.

On the resource side, The school reports having 8 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.3:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.0:1 average. About 47% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Jefferson County runs at roughly 60%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Spring Garden Middle School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 44.2% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 31.3%.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Jefferson County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $63,118 per year, 18% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. Spring Garden Middle School is one of 31 public schools in Jefferson County (combined enrollment of about 5,314 students).

Ewing-Northern Elem School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 4.9 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, Spring Garden Middle School comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 38.9%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Spring Garden Middle School has held roughly steady, going from 92 students in 2018 to 93 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share fell from 95% to 90%. Class-load math has fell: from 13.1:1 in 2018 to 11.3:1 in 2025.

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