Public school / Middle
Washington Middle School
Springfield, Illinois
- NCES ID
- 173708003844
- District
- Springfield SD 186
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Washington Middle School is a public middle school in Springfield, Illinois, run by Springfield SD 186. It enrols 531 students — the 33672nd 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
531
Teachers
52.0
Students per teacher
10.2
Free or reduced-price lunch
80.2%
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 Springfield SD 186
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.
- 1Springfield High School1,461 students
- 2Springfield Southeast High Sch1,261 students
- 3Lanphier High School1,058 students
- 4Benjamin Franklin Middle School713 students
- 5Early Learning Center555 students
- 6Jefferson Middle School539 students
- 7Washington Middle School531 students
- 8U S Grant Middle School529 students
- Enrollment+31.4%
- Teachers+100.0%
- Students per teacher−25.5%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+50.2%
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