Public school / Middle
Washington Jr High & Academy Prgm
Joliet, Illinois
- NCES ID
- 172058002348
- District
- Joliet PSD 86
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Washington Jr High & Academy Prgm is a public middle school in Joliet, Illinois, run by Joliet PSD 86. It enrols 774 students — the 15418th 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
774
Teachers
55.0
Students per teacher
14.1
Free or reduced-price lunch
97.3%
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 Joliet PSD 86
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.
- 1Hufford Junior High School1,151 students
- 2Washington Jr High & Academy Prgm774 students
- 3Gompers Junior High School649 students
- 4Sator Sanchez Elem School616 students
- 5Lynne Thigpen Elem School607 students
- 6Dirksen Junior High School573 students
- 7Pershing Elem School559 students
- 8Farragut Elem School554 students
- Enrollment+91.6%
- Teachers+111.5%
- Students per teacher+2.9%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+82.2%
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