Public school / Middle
Algonquin Middle School
Des Plaines, Illinois
- NCES ID
- 171212001460
- District
- Ccsd 62
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Algonquin Middle School is a public middle school in Des Plaines, Illinois, run by Ccsd 62. It enrols 580 students — the 28610th largest of 4,435 public schools in Illinois.
Reported figures, 2022–2023
The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.
Enrollment
580
Teachers
59.0
Students per teacher
9.8
Free or reduced-price lunch
60.0%
How these figures are defined
Enrollment
Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.
Teachers
Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.
Students per teacher
Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.
Free or reduced-price lunch
Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.
Within Ccsd 62
Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.
- 1Chippewa Middle School615 students
- 2Forest Elem School588 students
- 3Algonquin Middle School580 students
- 4Iroquois Community School432 students
- 5North Elementary School431 students
- 6Central Elem School308 students
- 7Cumberland Elem School302 students
- 8Plainfield Elem School272 students
- Enrollment+43.6%
- Teachers+126.9%
- Students per teacher−28.5%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+12.4%
Where this sits
Sources & licence
Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.
Provenance
- National Center for Education Statistics
- Common Core of Data — school and district directory