Spring Wood Middle School

Spring Wood Middle School, a reasonably sized junior high in Hanover Park, Illinois, part of Keeneyville SD 20, caters to 420 students, covering grades 6 through 8.

Across the 3 schools in Keeneyville SD 20 (1,301 students total), Spring Wood Middle School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, Spring Wood Middle School records that the largest single group is Hispanic at 41%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 34% White, 11% Black, 9% Asian, 5% multiracial. By comparison, DuPage County as a whole is about 16% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, The school currently runs with 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.0:1, putting Spring Wood Middle School tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 57% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against DuPage County (around 34%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Spring Wood Middle School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 38.5%; this one delivers 30.3%.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for DuPage County indicate median household income runs about $112,096, 52% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Spring Wood Middle School is one of 277 public schools in DuPage County (combined enrollment of about 138,557 students).

Greenbrook Elem School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Spring Wood Middle School. On composite proficiency, Spring Wood Middle School comes 6th of 6 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 38.8%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Spring Wood Middle School has decreased 21%, going from 534 students in 2018 to 420 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share grew from 32% to 41%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 14.2:1 in 2018 to 10.4:1 today.

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