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SCHOOL COMMUNITY·KEENEYVILLE SD 20·NCES 172088002375

Spring Wood Middle School

5540 Arlington Dr E, Hanover Park, IL 60133 · (630) 893-8900 · DuPage County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL420 STUDENTS
D
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Scored higher than 14% of Illinois public middle schools
  • C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
  • C-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
  • ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.

Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Illinois public middle schools

Enrollment
420
Middle
DISTRICT 434 · STATE 462
Student : Teacher
10.4:1
40 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.3:1 · STATE 13.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
57%
240 students
DISTRICT 57% · STATE 56%
Community
5
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.

Enrollment by grade, 2024-25

GradeStudentsShare
Grade 611527%
Grade 715537%
Grade 815036%
Student demographics
69%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 69% · STATE 69% · US 70%
White
14234%
DISTRICT 34% · STATE 45% · US 43%
Hispanic
17441%
DISTRICT 42% · STATE 29% · US 30%
Black
4511%
DISTRICT 11% · STATE 16% · US 15%
Asian
379%
DISTRICT 9% · STATE 6% · US 6%
Two+
205%
DISTRICT 4% · STATE 5% · US 5%
Native American
20%
DISTRICT 0% · STATE 0% · US 1%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Male
20148%
Female
21952%

School pathway

Feeds from
Waterbury Elementary SchoolKG–05Greenbrook Elementary SchoolPK–05
Based on grade levels within Keeneyville SD 20. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.

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Test scores

IAR + ISA 2024-25 . % Proficient (Levels 4-5)
English Language Arts
37.4%
IL avg 51.0% . +9.0pp since 2023
Math
24.2%
IL avg 37.9% . +7.7pp since 2023

What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 37 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 24 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Illinois schools, those numbers are about 51 and 38. Reading and writing scores are up about 9 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 8 points.

IAR + ISA results by year

School yearEnglish Language ArtsMath
2024-2537.4%24.2%
2023-2428.4%16.5%
% Proficient (Levels 4-5), all students and all tested grades.
Source: IAR + ISA. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →

BeatsExpectations

Demographically-adjusted score · methodology
Tier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
30.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
38.5%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-8.3pp
below demographic expectation

What this means: About 30% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 39% typical for Illinois schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Illinois's top nor bottom 10%.

BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →

Schools most like Spring Wood Middle School

Spring Wood Middle School's state test result (30.3% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.

SchoolStudentsLow-incomeProficient
Spring Wood Middle School this school42057.1%30.3%
Holmes Jr High School
Mount Prospect
45962.5%42.8%
Algonquin Middle School
Algonquin
37056.5%49.0%
Carl Sandburg Middle School
Rolling Meadows
46848.5%38.4%
John J Lukancic Middle School
Romeoville
59153.6%50.7%
Algonquin Middle School
Des Plaines
59757.3%49.7%
Matched among Illinois middle schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.

Where Spring Wood Middle School ranks

Among middle schools
MeasureThis schoolIn IllinoisIn DuPage County
State test proficiency
ranked highest first
30.3%#433 of 578#43 of 43
Math proficiency
ranked highest first
24.2%#440 of 640
▲ 7
#49 of 51
▼ 1
Reading proficiency
ranked highest first
37.4%#515 of 640
▼ 1
#51 of 51
▼ 1
Enrollment
ranked largest first
420#350 of 691#34 of 51
Students per teacher
ranked fewest first
10.4:1#60 of 558#9 of 48
Diversity index
ranked most diverse first
69.3%#47 of 560#6 of 48
Free and reduced lunch
ranked highest share first
57.1%#207 of 581#6 of 43
Enrollment change since 2017-18
ranked steepest decline first
-21.3%#80 of 440#4 of 37
Ranked against other public middle schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.

4-year change

SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25
Enrollment
420
-68 (-14%) vs 2020
-29% since 1990-91, when it was 593
Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Enrollment and staffing by year

School yearStudentsTeachers (FTE)Students per teacherFree and reduced lunch
2024-2542040.210.4:157% (240)
2023-244364010.9:158% (254)
2022-234503811.8:154% (244)
2020-21488N/AN/AN/A
2017-1853437.614.2:157% (304)
2015-164953613.8:146% (228)
2010-115383515.4:151% (276)
2000-015364113.1:1N/A
1990-915933218.5:1N/A
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Spring Wood Middle School.

Since 2017-18: students down 21% (534 to 420); teachers up 7% (37.6 to 40.2).

About Spring Wood Middle School

Spring Wood Middle School is a medium-sized middle-grades school based in Hanover Park, Illinois. The school counts 420 students across grades 6 through 8.

Spring Wood Middle School is part of Keeneyville SD 20, where 3 schools serve 1,301 students.

The most common group at Spring Wood Middle School is Hispanic students, at 41%. After that, the student body is 34% White, 11% Black, 9% Asian, and 5% multiracial. Among all residents of DuPage County, the Hispanic share is about 16%. Pick two students at random and there is a 69% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.

Its 40.2 full-time-equivalent teachers give the school a ratio of 10.4:1. The school has fewer students per teacher than the 13.0:1 average for middle schools in Illinois. The school's lunch program data list 57% of students as eligible for free or reduced-price meals. That rate is above the 34% average among public schools in DuPage County.

Spring Wood Middle School is graded D by allk12, scoring above 14% of Illinois public middle schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.

Based on student poverty, the model expects 38.5% at Spring Wood Middle School; the school's average proficiency rate on state tests is 30.3%.

Recent Census Bureau figures for DuPage County show that the median household income is $112,096, roughly 52% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 5%. Spring Wood Middle School is one of 277 public schools in the county.

Nearby, Greenbrook Elementary School is about 0.6 miles away. There are at least 8 more public schools inside five miles. Spring Wood Middle School's average proficiency of 30.3% compares with 38.8% for its nearest scored neighbors.

NCES lists the school's locale as Suburb: Large. That means it sits in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.

Enrollment has fallen by 68 students since 2020-21, to 420.

If you have questions about enrollment questions, class placement, and PTA news at Spring Wood Middle School, you can post them here. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.

DuPage County at a glance

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Population
930,024
Census ACS
Median income
$112,096
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
52%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
277
138,557 students

Quick facts

School name
Spring Wood Middle School
District
Keeneyville SD 20
Address
5540 Arlington Dr E, Hanover Park, IL 60133
Phone
(630) 893-8900
County
DuPage County
Level
Middle
Grade range
06–08
Total enrollment
420
Teachers (FTE)
40
Student–teacher ratio
10.4:1
Free and reduced lunch
240 (57%)
Locale
21-Suburb: Large
NCES ID
172088002375
Charter school
No
Virtual school
No

Related schools

Other schools in Keeneyville SD 20
Other schools in Hanover Park
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Frequently asked questions

About Spring Wood Middle School
How large is Spring Wood Middle School?
Spring Wood Middle School enrolls approximately 420 students in grades 06-08.
What age range does Spring Wood Middle School serve?
Spring Wood Middle School serves students from grade 06 through grade 08.
How many students per teacher at Spring Wood Middle School?
Approximately 10.4:1 students per teacher at Spring Wood Middle School.
What is the student diversity at Spring Wood Middle School?
Student demographics at Spring Wood Middle School are roughly 34% White, 41% Hispanic, 11% Black, 9% Asian, 5% Two or more.
What district is Spring Wood Middle School in?
Spring Wood Middle School is part of Keeneyville SD 20.
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