Summary:
Harvey School District 152 in Illinois has only one middle school, Brooks Middle School, which serves students in grades 6-8. The district as a whole is ranked 775 out of 811 in Illinois, with a 0-star rating, indicating significant challenges in providing quality education to its students.
Brooks Middle School has consistently performed poorly, ranking in the bottom half of Illinois middle schools and receiving low SchoolDigger ratings over the past few years. The school's academic proficiency rates in English Language Arts, Mathematics, and Science are significantly below the state averages, with only 31% of students proficient in ELA and 12.9% proficient in Mathematics in the 2024-2025 school year.
The school faces significant socioeconomic challenges, with 76.33% of its students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch in the 2023-2024 school year. Additionally, the school's chronic absenteeism rate was 25.4% in the 2024-2025 school year, which is a concerning metric. Despite these challenges, the school's per-student spending is higher than the state average, and it has a relatively low student-teacher ratio of 18:1, suggesting that the issue may not be a lack of resources, but rather how those resources are being utilized to support student learning and achievement.
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