Enrollment
361
Middle
DISTRICT 333 · STATE 462
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·COOK COUNTY SD 130·NCES 170651004244
Veterans Memorial Middle School
12320 Greenwood Ave, Blue Island, IL 60406 · (708) 489-7307 · Cook County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL361 STUDENTS
C-
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Scored higher than 16% of Illinois public middle schools
- DTest 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
Student : Teacher
11.9:1
30 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.2:1 · STATE 13.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
78%
282 students
DISTRICT 77% · STATE 56%
Community
0
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
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 128 | 35% |
| Grade 7 | 107 | 30% |
| Grade 8 | 126 | 35% |
Student demographics
51%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 52% · STATE 69% · US 70%
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
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IAR + ISA 2024-25 . % Proficient (Levels 4-5)English Language Arts
34.3%
IL avg 51.0% . +9.2pp since 2023
Math
15.2%
IL avg 37.9% . +2.8pp since 2023
What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 34 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 15 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 3 points.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 34.3% | 15.2% |
| 2023-24 | 25.1% | 12.4% |
% 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 · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
22.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
26.4%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-3.6pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 23% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 26% 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 Veterans Memorial Middle School
Veterans Memorial Middle School's state test result (22.8% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Veterans Memorial Middle School this school | 361 | 78.1% | 22.8% |
| Kellar School Robbins | 431 | 75.4% | 34.7% |
| Zion Central Middle School Zion | 330 | 85.5% | 13.6% |
| Shiloh Park Middle School Zion | 358 | 85.8% | 12.2% |
| MacArthur Middle School Berkeley | 357 | 75.9% | 24.3% |
| Everett F Kerr Middle School Blue Island | 304 | 81.9% | 32.2% |
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 Veterans Memorial Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Illinois | In Cook County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 22.8% | #501 of 578 | #95 of 116 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 15.2% | #537 of 640 ▼ 38 | #119 of 146 ▼ 11 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 34.3% | #544 of 640 ▼ 5 | #120 of 146 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 361 | #397 of 691 | #108 of 148 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.9:1 | #175 of 558 | #64 of 138 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 51.4% | #253 of 560 | #68 of 138 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 78.1% | #70 of 581 | #33 of 117 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -1.1% | #424 of 440 | #93 of 97 |
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 2024-25Enrollment
361
-66 (-15%) vs 2020
-17% since 2010-11, when it was 437
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 361 | 30.3 | 11.9:1 | 78% (282) |
| 2023-24 | 350 | 33 | 10.6:1 | 89% (313) |
| 2022-23 | 370 | 31.5 | 11.8:1 | 91% (335) |
| 2020-21 | 427 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 365 | 29.9 | 12.2:1 | 76% (277) |
| 2015-16 | 373 | 31 | 12.0:1 | 86% (321) |
| 2010-11 | 437 | 33 | 13.2:1 | 92% (400) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Veterans Memorial Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students down 1% (365 to 361); teachers up 1% (29.9 to 30.3).
About Veterans Memorial Middle School
Veterans Memorial Middle School is a small middle school based in Blue Island, Illinois. Enrolled students number 361 students, in grades 6 through 8. Enrollment is 22% lower than the average for middle schools in Illinois, which is about 462.
Across its 11 schools, Cook County SD 130 enrolls 2,950 students. Veterans Memorial Middle School is one of those schools.
At 63%, Hispanic students outnumber all other groups at Veterans Memorial Middle School combined. Smaller groups are 30% Black and 6% White. County-wide, 27% of Cook County residents are Hispanic. The chance that two students picked at random at Veterans Memorial Middle School belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 51%.
Teachers at Veterans Memorial Middle School total 30.3 full-time equivalents, and the ratio is 11.9:1. The 13.0:1 average for middle schools in Illinois is higher than this school's figure. The school counts 282 students as eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, or 78%. That is 12 points above the 66% average for public schools in Cook County.
Measured against Illinois public middle schools, Veterans Memorial Middle School receives a C-. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
On BeatsExpectations, Veterans Memorial Middle School is 3.6 points below its prediction, a result in the middle 80% of Illinois schools.
Veterans Memorial Middle School is located in Cook County, where median household income is about $83,498, roughly 43% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Federal data list 1,406 public schools in Cook County, with a combined enrollment of about 697,934.
Nearby, Paul Revere Intermediate School is about 0.3 miles away. Other public schools within five miles number at least 8. Compared with its nearest neighbors, Veterans Memorial Middle School ranks 8th of 8 on average proficiency.
Veterans Memorial Middle School falls in the Suburb: Large locale category, used for schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment was 427 in 2020-21 and 361 in 2024-25, a decrease of 66 students.
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Cook County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
5,182,090
Census ACS
Median income
$83,498
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
43%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
1,406
697,934 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Cook County SD 130
- Lincoln Elementary SchoolElementary · 342 students
- Nathan Hale Middle SchoolMiddle · 334 students
- Nathan Hale Primary SchoolElementary · 334 students
- Paul Revere Primary SchoolElementary · 318 students
- Everett F Kerr Middle SchoolMiddle · 304 students
- George Washington Elementary SchoolElementary · 270 students
Other schools in Blue Island
- DD Eisenhower High School (Campus)High · 1,818 students
- Lincoln Elementary SchoolElementary · 342 students
- Paul Revere Primary SchoolElementary · 318 students
- Everett F Kerr Middle SchoolMiddle · 304 students
- Horace Mann SchoolElementary · 182 students
- Paul Revere Intermediate SchoolElementary · 180 students
Other Veterans Memorial Middle schools
4 other US public schools in 3 states are named Veterans Memorial Middle. Veterans Memorial Middle School is the 5th largest of the 5.
- Veterans Memorial Middle SchoolBRICK TOWN, NJ · 865 students
- Veterans Memorial Middle SchoolColumbus, GA · 681 students
- Veterans Memorial Middle SchoolCovington, GA · 637 students
- Veterans Memorial MiddleVINELAND, NJ · 603 students
Nearby schools
- Paul Revere Intermediate School0.3 mi · 180
- Paul Revere Primary School0.3 mi · 318
- Everett F Kerr Middle School0.8 mi · 304
- DD Eisenhower High School (Campus)0.8 mi · 1,818
- Meadow Lane School0.9 mi · 197
- Whittier Elementary School0.9 mi · 150
Frequently asked questions
About Veterans Memorial Middle SchoolHow many students attend Veterans Memorial Middle School?
Veterans Memorial Middle School enrolls approximately 361 students in grades 06-08.
What age range does Veterans Memorial Middle School serve?
Veterans Memorial Middle School serves students from grade 06 through grade 08.
How many students per teacher at Veterans Memorial Middle School?
Approximately 11.9:1 students per teacher at Veterans Memorial Middle School.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Veterans Memorial Middle School?
At Veterans Memorial Middle School, the student body is approximately 6% White, 63% Hispanic, 30% Black, 1% Asian, 1% Two or more.
What district is Veterans Memorial Middle School in?
Veterans Memorial Middle School is part of Cook County SD 130.
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