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Public school / Middle

Northwood Middle School

Highland Park, Illinois

NCES ID
170011902198
District
North Shore SD 112
School type
Regular
Title I
Not designated

Northwood Middle School is a public middle school in Highland Park, Illinois, run by North Shore SD 112. It enrols 478 students — the 40043rd 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

478students

40043rd nationally, tied with 135

Teachers

50.0FTE

15022nd nationally, tied with 725

Students per teacher

9.6students

7729th nationally, tied with 323

Free or reduced-price lunch

44.6%percent

55982nd nationally, tied with 104

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 North Shore SD 112

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. 1Edgewood Middle School739 students
  2. 2Northwood Middle School478 students
  3. 3Indian Trail Elem School476 students
  4. 4Wayne Thomas Elem School381 students
  5. 5Sherwood Elem School375 students
  6. 6Oak Terrace Elem School373 students
  7. 7Ravinia Elem School262 students
  8. 8Braeside Elem School260 students
Distance from the state median

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

  • Enrollment+18.3%
  • Teachers+92.3%
  • Students per teacher−29.9%
  • Free or reduced-price lunch−16.5%
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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.