Public school / Middle
Northlake Middle School
Northlake, Illinois
- NCES ID
- 170600000281
- District
- Berkeley SD 87
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Northlake Middle School is a public middle school in Northlake, Illinois, run by Berkeley SD 87. It enrols 379 students — the 54111th 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
379
Teachers
29.0
Students per teacher
13.1
Free or reduced-price lunch
78.1%
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 Berkeley SD 87
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.
- 1Macarthur Middle School452 students
- 2Jefferson Primary School395 students
- 3Northlake Middle School379 students
- 4Sunnyside Intermediate School376 students
- 5Whittier Primary School353 students
- 6J W Riley Intermediate School329 students
- Enrollment−6.2%
- Teachers+11.5%
- Students per teacher−4.4%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+46.3%
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