Of the 689 students attending Jackson Middle School in 2018, 31.5 percent scored proficient in English Language Arts and 38.8 percent were proficient in math, according to a report recently released by the Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE).
The Illinois Schools Report Card finds that 87.6 percent of teachers stay at Jackson Middle School year to year, according to their 2020 three-year average.
The truancy rate at Jackson Middle School rose to nine percent during the 2018-19 school year, according to a DuPage Policy Journal analysis of the latest Illinois schools report card.
The truancy rate at Jackson Middle School fell to three percent during the 2019-20 school year, according to a DuPage Policy Journal analysis of the latest Illinois schools report card.
Schools among DuPage County had the 72nd highest truancy rate of 6.4% during the 2021-2022 school year, according to the Illinois State Board of Education report.
In DuPage County schools, there were more white students than any other individual ethnicity in the 2021-22 school year, according to the Illinois State Board of Education.
Out of the 61,721 students who took the IAR in the 2021-22 school year, 55% failed the ELA portion of the test.
Out of the 61,644 students who took the IAR in the 2021-22 school year, 57.6% failed the Mathematics portion of the test.
Out of the 58,052 students who took the IAR in the 2021-22 school year, 40.8% passed the Mathematics portion of the test.
Out of the 58,133 students who took the IAR in the 2021-22 school year, 43.5% passed the English portion of the test.
In the 2021-22 school year, 50.4% of students enrolled in DuPage County County school districts identified as white.
In the 2021-22 school year, 6.1% of students enrolled in DuPage County County school districts identified as Black.
In the 2021-22 school year, 24.6% of students enrolled in DuPage County County school districts identified as Hispanic.
In the 2021-22 school year, less than 1% of students enrolled in DuPage County County school districts identified as Pacific Islander.
In DuPage County County schools, 5,564 multiracial students were enrolled in the 2021-22 school year, according to the Illinois State Board of Education report.