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Public school / Middle

Michelle Obama Sch of Technology

Park Forest, Illinois

NCES ID
173081003209
District
Park Forest SD 163
School type
Regular
Title I
Not designated

Michelle Obama Sch of Technology is a public middle school in Park Forest, Illinois, run by Park Forest SD 163. It enrols 484 students — the 39246th largest of 4,435 public schools in Illinois.

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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

484students

39246th nationally, tied with 126

Teachers

44.0FTE

20120th nationally, tied with 1,039

Students per teacher

11.0students

13932nd nationally, tied with 668

Free or reduced-price lunch

72.1%percent

28969th nationally, tied with 84

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.

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Within Park Forest SD 163

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.

Enrollment — same district
  1. 1Michelle Obama Sch of Technology484 students
  2. 2Barack Obama Sch of Ldership329 students
  3. 3Mohawk Primary Center275 students
  4. 4Blackhawk Primary Center163 students
  5. 521st Century Primary Center157 students
  6. 6Algonquin Primary Center129 students
Distance from the state median

Baseline: Illinois median across 4,435 public schools. Bars right of the rule are above it.

  • Enrollment+19.8%
  • Teachers+69.2%
  • Students per teacher−19.7%
  • Free or reduced-price lunch+35.0%
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Where this sits

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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
Current · as of August 17, 2026U.S. Public Domain (NCES)

Collected and published by NCES; retrieved through the Urban Institute Education Data Portal, which republishes the NCES files unchanged.

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Data as of September 1, 2022.