Public school / Middle
Walker Intermediate School
Tinley Park, Illinois
- NCES ID
- 173822005454
- District
- Summit Hill SD 161
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Walker Intermediate School is a public middle school in Tinley Park, Illinois, run by Summit Hill SD 161. It enrols 550 students — the 31588th 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
550
Teachers
51.0
Students per teacher
10.8
Free or reduced-price lunch
20.0%
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 Summit Hill SD 161
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.
- 1Dr Julian Rogus School644 students
- 2Summit Hill Junior High School640 students
- 3Walker Intermediate School550 students
- 4Indian Trail Elem School326 students
- 5Frankfort Square Elem School175 students
- 6Arbury Hills Elem School164 students
- Enrollment+36.1%
- Teachers+96.2%
- Students per teacher−21.2%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−62.5%
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