Wood Dale Jr High School

Wood Dale Jr High School is a 6-8 campus of cozy scale in Wood Dale, Illinois, overseen by Wood Dale SD 7, educateing 277 students in grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Illinois's public schools average about 462 students each, so Wood Dale Jr High School sits 40% leaner than that benchmark.

Within Wood Dale SD 7, which oversees 4 schools and 890 students, Wood Dale Jr High School is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Wood Dale Jr High School shows that Hispanic students make up the majority at 56%. Other groups include 34% White, 4% Asian, 3% multiracial, 2% Black. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 16%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.0:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.0:1 average. Around 57% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is north of DuPage County's rate of about 34%.

After controlling for student poverty, Wood Dale Jr High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 38.8%, the actual is 41.3%, a residual of +2.5 points.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for DuPage County put the typical household earns roughly $112,096 per year, about 52% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Across DuPage County's 277 public schools (combined enrollment of about 138,557 students), Wood Dale Jr High School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Early Childhood Education Center, around 0.3 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Wood Dale Jr High School ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 39.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area.

Over the past 7-year window. Wood Dale Jr High School's enrollment has edged down 15% since 2018, when it stood at 324 (now 277). Over the same period, the White share contracted from 43% to 34%.

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