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Public school / Middle

Prairie-Hills Junior High School

Markham, Illinois

NCES ID
172472002673
District
Prairie-Hills ESD 144
School type
Regular
Title I
Not designated

Prairie-Hills Junior High School is a public middle school in Markham, Illinois, run by Prairie-Hills ESD 144. It enrols 825 students — the 13243rd 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

825students

13243rd nationally, tied with 33

Teachers

34.0FTE

34064th nationally, tied with 1,817

Students per teacher

24.3students

88647th nationally, tied with 173

Free or reduced-price lunch

93.0%percent

10339th nationally, tied with 69

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 Prairie-Hills ESD 144

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. 1Prairie-Hills Junior High School825 students
  2. 2Mae Jemison School376 students
  3. 3Highlands Elem School327 students
  4. 4Markham Park Elem School308 students
  5. 5Chateaux School262 students
  6. 6Fieldcrest Elem School207 students
  7. 7Nob Hill Elem School200 students
  8. 8Prairie-Hills Steam Academy3 students
Distance from the state median

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

  • Enrollment+104.2%
  • Teachers+30.8%
  • Students per teacher+77.4%
  • Free or reduced-price lunch+74.2%
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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.