Thomas Jefferson Middle School

Thomas Jefferson Middle School runs as a mid-sized middle school in Hoffman Est, Illinois. The school has 621 students in 2024-25 across grades 6 through 8. Middle schools in Illinois have about 462 students on average; enrollment here is 34% higher.

Palatine CCSD 15 counts 11,715 students in its 20 schools, and Thomas Jefferson Middle School is one of them.

The share of White students at Thomas Jefferson Middle School is 55%, a majority. After that, the student body is 31% Asian, 6% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, and 3% Black. Census figures show Cook County is about 44% White. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 59, compared with 70 nationally.

The school lists 41.4 full-time-equivalent teachers and a student-to-teacher ratio of 15.0:1. The average for middle schools in Illinois, 13.0:1, is lower. A total of 72 students, or 12%, are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. Among public schools in Cook County, the average eligibility rate is 66%.

Cook County is the school's county. There, the median household earns about $83,498 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 43% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 10%. Public schools in Cook County number 1,406, with about 697,934 students.

Thomas Jefferson Elementary School is less than a tenth of a mile away, making it the nearest public school. There are at least 8 more public schools inside five miles.

Locale data from NCES put Thomas Jefferson Middle School in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more (Suburb: Large).

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