Public school / Middle
K D Waldo Middle School
Aurora, Illinois
- NCES ID
- 170468000149
- District
- Aurora East USD 131
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
K D Waldo Middle School is a public middle school in Aurora, Illinois, run by Aurora East USD 131. It enrols 846 students — the 12475th 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
846
Teachers
59.0
Students per teacher
14.3
Free or reduced-price lunch
72.6%
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 Aurora East USD 131
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.
- 1East High School4,197 students
- 2Henry W Cowherd Middle School883 students
- 3K D Waldo Middle School846 students
- 4C F Simmons Middle School795 students
- 5Olney C Allen Elem School751 students
- 6C M Bardwell Elem School710 students
- 7Nicholas A Hermes Elem School616 students
- 8G N Dieterich Elem School485 students
- Enrollment+109.4%
- Teachers+126.9%
- Students per teacher+4.4%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+36.0%
Where this sits
Geographic context
District
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