Public school / Middle
Virgil I Grissom Middle School
Tinley Park, Illinois
- NCES ID
- 172127002402
- District
- Kirby SD 140
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Virgil I Grissom Middle School is a public middle school in Tinley Park, Illinois, run by Kirby SD 140. It enrols 596 students — the 27158th 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
596
Teachers
56.0
Students per teacher
10.6
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.
Within Kirby SD 140
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.
- 1Prairie View Middle School605 students
- 2Virgil I Grissom Middle School596 students
- 3Christa Mcauliffe School583 students
- 4Millennium Elem School525 students
- 5John A Bannes Elem School454 students
- 6Helen Keller Elem School397 students
- 7Fernway Park Elem School348 students
- Enrollment+47.5%
- Teachers+115.4%
- Students per teacher−22.6%
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