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Springman Middle School
Test scores
IAR + ISA 2024-25 . % Proficient (Levels 4-5)What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 76 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 58 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 10 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 1 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 68% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 56% 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Springman Middle School
Springman Middle School is a high-enrollment junior high in Glenview, Illinois, run under Glenview CCSD 34. The school enrolls 811 students in grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 76% bigger than the state mean of about 462.
Across the 8 schools in Glenview CCSD 34 (4,287 students total), Springman Middle School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
On demographics, Springman Middle School records that White students make up the majority at 63%. Beyond that, the school lists 19% Asian, 11% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 44% White, putting the school's mix noticeably more White than the area baseline.
On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 71 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.5:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.0:1 average. Roughly 27% of students at Springman Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is below Cook County's rate of about 66%.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Springman Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 56.1%, the actual is 68.5%, a residual of +12.4 points.
Across the wider county, census data for Cook County shows median household income runs about $83,498, 43% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. In all, Cook County runs 1406 public schools (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students), of which Springman Middle School is one.
The closest other public school is Henking Elem School, roughly 0.5 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Springman Middle School ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 50.7%.
Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area.
Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Springman Middle School has edged down 9%, going from 889 students in 2018 to 811 in 2025. The White share of enrollment decreased from 67% to 63% over that span. Class-load math has pulled in: from 13.5:1 in 2018 to 11.5:1 in 2025.
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