# Northwood Middle School

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Full profile (human-readable): https://us.il.whatschool.ai/en/il/school/northwood-middle-school-highland-park

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `170011902198`
- **School name**: Northwood Middle School
- **Location**: Highland Park, IL 60035
- **Address**: 945 North Ave
- **District**: North Shore SD 112 (LEAID `1700119`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Coordinates**: 42.20405, -87.82323
- **Phone**: (224)765-3600

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 540
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 51
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 10.6:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 37.2%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: IL Report Card
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Commendable
- **Indicators**:
  - overall: Commendable

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2025
- **Overall (IL Report Card)**: 68.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 30.0% (155 students) [source: crdc_2020]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 8
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 52.2%
- **Black/African American**: 2.9%
- **Asian**: 1.4%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 41.6%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 1.9%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 41.5%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 17.1% — 88 students


## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 37 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 18 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 17 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 8 students
- **Autism**: 7 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $24,813
- **Federal share**: $712
- **State + local share**: $24,101
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $28,593,799
- **Federal share**: 5.4%
- **State share**: 22.6%
- **Local share**: 72.0%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $14,141,356

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $204,886
- **Poverty rate**: 0.9%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 76.3%
- **Unemployment**: 4.7%
- **Foreign-born residents**: 13.0%
- **Single-parent households**: 1.1%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 11.1 miles (OUTBOARD MARINE CORP)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 11
- **Nearest brownfield**: 8.07 miles (VACANT LOT)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: HIGHLAND PARK
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 7.29172 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 4.6 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Wayne Thomas Elem School** — 0.1 mi away, 17.82% (this school: 30.04%)
- **Highland Park High School** — 1.3 mi away, 12.45% (this school: 30.04%)
- **Edgewood Middle School** — 1.7 mi away, 15.24% (this school: 30.04%)
- **Deerfield High School** — 1.9 mi away, 5.79% (this school: 30.04%)
- **Bannockburn School** — 2.3 mi away, 7.74% (this school: 30.04%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.il.whatschool.ai/en/il/school/northwood-middle-school-highland-park
- **Performance**: https://us.il.whatschool.ai/en/il/school/northwood-middle-school-highland-park/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.il.whatschool.ai/en/il/school/northwood-middle-school-highland-park/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.il.whatschool.ai/en/il/school/northwood-middle-school-highland-park/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.il.whatschool.ai/en/il/school/northwood-middle-school-highland-park/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.il.whatschool.ai/en/il/school/northwood-middle-school-highland-park/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.il.whatschool.ai/en/il/school/northwood-middle-school-highland-park/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.il.whatschool.ai/en/il/school/northwood-middle-school-highland-park/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.il.whatschool.ai/en/il/school/northwood-middle-school-highland-park/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.il.whatschool.ai/en/il/school/northwood-middle-school-highland-park/workforce

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*Source: US Dept of Education CCD, EDFacts, CRDC, F-33; US Census ACS; EPA SDWIS, TRI, NPL, AQS; state DOE portals (CA CDE, TX TEA, FL DOE, NY NYSED, IL ISBE, WA OSPI). Aggregated by WhatSchool.ai.*

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