Is Hadley Junior High School a good school?

Yes! Hadley Junior High School is one of the best middle schools in the state. It ranks 43 rd of 1363 Illinois middle schools.

How many students attend Hadley Junior High School?

In the 2022-23 school year, 1,148 students attended Hadley Junior High School.

What is the racial makeup of Hadley Junior High School?

Students at Hadley Junior High School are 68% White, 15% Hispanic, 10% Asian, 5% Two or more races, 3% African American.

What high school do graduates of Hadley Junior High School attend?

Students who attend Hadley Junior High School usually go on to attend Glenbard West High School

Hadley Junior High School

Summary:

Hadley Junior High School is a public middle school located in Glen Ellyn, Illinois, serving grades 6-8 with a total enrollment of 1,148 students. The school is part of the Glen Ellyn School District 41, which is ranked 138 out of 813 districts in Illinois and has a 4-star rating from SchoolDigger.

Hadley Junior High School consistently ranks among the top middle schools in Illinois, with a statewide ranking between 31st and 43rd out of over 1,300 schools in recent years. The school's students perform exceptionally well on standardized tests, with 79.6% proficient or better in English Language Arts and 61.8% proficient or better in Mathematics, significantly outperforming the state averages. Hadley also demonstrates strong performance across various student subgroups, ranking in the top 10 for African American students and top 18 for White students in Illinois. Additionally, the school has been able to reduce its chronic absenteeism rate to 17.1% in the 2023-2024 school year, lower than the district and state averages.

When comparing Hadley Junior High School to nearby middle schools, it stands out as a top performer. For example, Glenn Westlake Middle School, the closest school at 3.71 miles away, has significantly lower proficiency rates in both English Language Arts (45.1%) and Mathematics (28.1%) compared to Hadley. Similarly, other nearby schools like Stratford Middle School and Glenside Middle School also lag behind Hadley in academic performance. Hadley's consistent high performance, with a 5-star rating from SchoolDigger for most of the past decade, is a testament to the school's commitment to providing a quality education for its students.

Detail:

Public 6-8

240 Hawthorne Blvd
Glen Ellyn, IL 60137-4038

(630) 790-6450

District: Glen Ellyn School District 41

SchoolDigger Rank:
43^rd of 1,363 Illinois Middle Schools

Per Pupil Expenditures: $15,806

Students who attend Hadley Junior High School usually attend:

High:

Glenbard West High School

Feeder schools for Hadley Junior High School:

Elementary:	Abraham Lincoln Elementary School
	Benjamin Franklin Elementary School
	Churchill Elementary School
	Forest Glen Elementary School

Student/teacher ratio: 14.6

Number of students: 1,148

Racial breakdown:

White:

67.7%

Hispanic:

15.1%

Asian:

9.8%

Free/discounted lunch recipients: 20.8%

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Performance Trends

Compare Details Hadley Junior High School ranks better than 96.8% of middle schools in Illinois. (See more...)

Compare Details In 2024 the calculated Average Standard Score was 96.04. (See more...)

Chronic absenteeism in a school refers to a situation where students repeatedly miss school, with the threshold often defined as missing 10% or more of school days for any reason, excused or unexcused.

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Compare Details The average total spent per student at Hadley Junior High School is $15,806.

Schooldigger 2024 Rankings:

Hadley Junior High School:

SchoolDigger ranks Hadley Junior High School 43^rd of 1363 Illinois public middle schools. (See Hadley Junior High School in the ranking list.)

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Glen Ellyn School District 41:

SchoolDigger ranks Glen Ellyn School District 41 138^th of 813 Illinois school districts. (See district ranking list.)

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Rank History for all students at Hadley Junior High School

Year	Avg Standard Score	Statewide Rank	Total # Ranked Middle Schools	IL State Percentile
2003	90.11	68^th	1185	94.3%
2004	88.57	83^rd	1204	93.1%
2005	85.23	129^th	1209	89.3%
2006	83.92	120^th	1272	90.6%
2007	81.90	156^th	1287	87.9%
2008	81.53	167^th	1293	87.1%
2009	80.64	189^th	1318	85.7%
2010	82.14	144^th	1327	89.1%
2011	81.18	169^th	1344	87.4%
2012	81.28	180^th	1365	86.8%
2013	88.03	109^th	1367	92.0%
2014	90.90	69^th	1322	94.8%
2015	88.45	131^st	1302	89.9%
2016	79.45	220^th	1294	83.0%
2017	90.12	101^st	1293	92.2%
2018	94.92	46^th	1293	96.4%
2019	89.49	110^th	1356	91.9%
2021	87.13	119^th	1241	90.4%
2022	96.76	31^st	1369	97.7%
2023	96.97	35^th	1367	97.4%
2024	96.04	43^rd	1363	96.8%

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Rank History for Multi-racial students at Hadley Junior High School

Year	Avg Standard Score	Statewide Rank	Total # Ranked Middle Schools	IL State Percentile
2018	93.07	6^th	164	96.3%
2019	77.87	31^st	179	82.7%
2021	91.75	6^th	97	93.8%
2022	95.24	5^th	195	97.4%
2023	92.75	12^th	194	93.8%
2024	91.77	10^th	184	94.6%

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Rank History for English Language Learner students at Hadley Junior High School

Year	Avg Standard Score	Statewide Rank	Total # Ranked Middle Schools	IL State Percentile
2018	77.20	14^th	285	95.1%
2019	48.89	114^th	339	66.4%
2021	38.36	179^th	277	35.4%
2022	75.54	30^th	454	93.4%
2023	59.63	98^th	480	79.6%
2024	55.81	129^th	486	73.5%

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Rank History for Special Education students at Hadley Junior High School

Year	Avg Standard Score	Statewide Rank	Total # Ranked Middle Schools	IL State Percentile
2018	84.60	41^st	602	93.2%
2019	73.48	103^rd	792	87.0%
2021	58.52	122^nd	548	77.7%
2022	72.43	88^th	781	88.7%
2023	94.05	36^th	805	95.5%
2024	96.13	28^th	802	96.5%

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Rank History for Low Socio Economic Status students at Hadley Junior High School

Year	Avg Standard Score	Statewide Rank	Total # Ranked Middle Schools	IL State Percentile
2018	75.72	180^th	1161	84.5%
2019	70.32	250^th	1217	79.5%
2021	54.52	356^th	1019	65.1%
2022	78.63	136^th	1221	88.9%
2023	83.20	104^th	1234	91.6%
2024	74.69	191^st	1219	84.3%

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Rank History for Female students at Hadley Junior High School

Year	Avg Standard Score	Statewide Rank	Total # Ranked Middle Schools	IL State Percentile
2018	92.66	58^th	1226	95.3%
2019	87.66	119^th	1276	90.7%
2021	84.03	116^th	1017	88.6%
2022	95.81	36^th	1286	97.2%
2023	96.18	25^th	1275	98.0%
2024	94.90	40^th	1251	96.8%

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Rank History for Disabled students at Hadley Junior High School

Year	Avg Standard Score	Statewide Rank	Total # Ranked Middle Schools	IL State Percentile	SchoolDigger Rating
2023	89.34	26^th	674	96.1%
2024	90.83	29^th	639	95.5%

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Rank History for Male students at Hadley Junior High School

Year	Avg Standard Score	Statewide Rank	Total # Ranked Middle Schools	IL State Percentile
2018	95.02	42^nd	1223	96.6%
2019	89.80	96^th	1296	92.6%
2021	85.28	106^th	1048	89.9%
2022	96.79	26^th	1286	98.0%
2023	96.70	33^rd	1292	97.4%
2024	95.93	39^th	1264	96.9%

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Rank History for Asian students at Hadley Junior High School

Year	Avg Standard Score	Statewide Rank	Total # Ranked Middle Schools	IL State Percentile
2018	43.68	123^rd	209	41.1%
2019	28.74	161^st	201	19.9%
2021	24.63	87^th	112	22.3%
2022	50.65	105^th	198	47.0%
2023	57.04	84^th	192	56.3%
2024	45.96	112^th	184	39.1%

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Rank History for African American students at Hadley Junior High School

Year	Avg Standard Score	Statewide Rank	Total # Ranked Middle Schools	IL State Percentile
2018	72.32	86^th	511	83.2%
2019	66.28	122^nd	565	78.4%
2022	98.09	10^th	573	98.3%

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Rank History for Hispanic students at Hadley Junior High School

Year	Avg Standard Score	Statewide Rank	Total # Ranked Middle Schools	IL State Percentile
2018	70.50	123^rd	590	79.2%
2019	56.26	233^rd	639	63.5%
2021	48.11	221^st	517	57.3%
2022	78.89	81^st	662	87.8%
2023	78.62	88^th	661	86.7%
2024	73.64	113^th	643	82.4%

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Rank History for White students at Hadley Junior High School

Year	Avg Standard Score	Statewide Rank	Total # Ranked Middle Schools	IL State Percentile
2018	94.17	28^th	889	96.9%
2019	87.69	63^rd	905	93.0%
2021	84.69	84^th	813	89.7%
2022	95.79	13^th	898	98.6%
2023	96.25	14^th	895	98.4%
2024	95.29	18^th	875	97.9%

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Data source: test scores: Illinois State Board of Education, rankings: SchoolDigger.com

As you review the school rankings data, please be aware that some of the information from certain demographics is missing. The reason for this omission is that the data has been redacted from the source data itself due to low population samples in these specific demographic groups.

Redacting data from low population samples is a necessary step to ensure the reliability and accuracy of the results, as small sample sizes may not be representative of the broader population. Additionally, this measure helps protect the privacy of individuals belonging to these demographic groups.

Data source: Illinois State Board of Education

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by a student
Saturday, June 26, 2021

it truly does suck, and i’m not saying that because i’m “at that point in life”. i went to the school a couple of years ago and honestly i hated it. you can ask anyone who went there or currently goes there, it sucks (my sibling is also at hadley as of right now so). all three years there were basically terrible. most of the teachers were super strict with us or played absolute favorites. (this doesn’t apply to all teachers because there are some actual decent teachers there that deserve a raise). they gave us 3 minutes to get to our classes and gods forbid you’re late by a fraction of a second. honestly did they really expect for us to make it to class on time AND to grab stuff from our locker? and don’t even get me started on lunch. in 8th grade they implemented the use of bathroom passes which were these wooden planks with our zone numbers and there where only 2 per zone. the amount of problems this caused because of you’re on your period, or have to go to the bathroom badly, they wouldn’t let you go unless they had the pads available. this also caused problems with our teacher for the next class if we had to go to the bathroom during class because they would tell us “why didn’t you go during lunch?!” because we couldn’t!! and the lunch food was so gross, i’m surprise i was able to actually eat it while the teachers got to have whole ass breakfast things or whatever the hell they were with actually food and they would only eat a fraction of it and throw the rest away. we also had theses things called wildcat passes or something (i don’t remember the name) it was basically a sheet of 13 times where u could go to the bathroom, library, nurse, office, whatever, and every time you needed to use one you were required to get your teacher’s permission to sign it and you had to take it with you. and if you didn’t have it or ran out of passes then you’d either get in trouble or weren’t allowed to go. they would also restrict literally everything on the chrome books i’m surprised they didn’t just give us feathers and ink to write on parchment. and don’t get me started on the buses. they would always come 10 minutes earlier than they’re supposed to or 20 minutes late. never on time. once my old bus driver had gotten fired and we didn’t know and we where waiting at our bus stop until 9:30 because the majority of the kids can only take the bus. by the time we had gotten to school it was around 10 ish and the school starts at 8:30. no one ever got an email from the school telling us why we didn’t have a bus come until 9:30. you can only imagine the chaos with our teachers when a bunch of students walk in 2 hours late to class and have to explain the whole situation because they as well didn’t get and email. needless to say it sucked. Close Quote

Enrollment information for Hadley Junior High School

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Year	White	African American	Asian	Hispanic	American Indian	Pacific Islander	Two or More Races	Not Specified	Total
1988	742	16	21	7	3	n/a	n/a	0	789
1989	742	19	26	9	10	n/a	n/a	0	806
1990	740	12	18	5	n/a	n/a	n/a	0	775
1991	766	13	18	8	0	n/a	n/a	0	805
1992	806	21	15	9	1	n/a	n/a	0	852
1993	814	27	22	12	0	n/a	n/a	0	875
1994	862	30	24	9	0	n/a	n/a	0	925
1995	886	32	30	23	0	n/a	n/a	0	971
1996	886	32	30	23	0	n/a	n/a	0	971
1997	913	22	55	16	0	n/a	n/a	0	1006
1998	895	32	35	22	1	n/a	n/a	0	985
1999	904	41	40	29	2	n/a	n/a	0	1016
2000	929	38	33	31	1	n/a	n/a	0	1032
2001	947	40	39	52	0	n/a	n/a	0	1078
2002	954	48	56	41	1	n/a	n/a	0	1100
2003	954	48	56	41	1	n/a	n/a	0	1100
2004	929	47	82	48	1	n/a	n/a	0	1107
2005	927	67	82	58	2	n/a	n/a	0	1136
2006	934	60	78	64	3	n/a	n/a	14	1153
2007	907	60	75	76	2	n/a	n/a	30	1150
2008	919	40	83	85	3	n/a	n/a	31	1161
2009	900	48	90	85	1	n/a	n/a	30	1154
2010	880	48	91	91	1	n/a	n/a	37	1148
2011	892	58	77	119	3	3	42	0	1194
2012	876	49	98	134	3	1	45	0	1206
2013	867	58	116	145	1	0	46	0	1233
2014	814	56	118	168	3	1	37	0	1197
2015	811	47	125	156	2	1	37	0	1179
2016	817	44	127	144	4	1	37	0	1174
2017	803	47	140	140	2	0	48	0	1180
2018	779	44	137	145	3	1	40	0	1149
2019	767	41	152	154	4	0	39	0	1157
2020	752	46	154	157	2	0	32	0	1143
2021	753	41	159	173	2	0	40	0	1168
2022	745	31	120	173	3	0	46	0	1118
2023	777	30	112	173	3	0	53	0	1148

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Dept of Education.

About Enrollment/Ethnicity

For more information about how the Department of Education defines ethnicity, see Defining Race and Ethnicity Data, National Center for Education Statistics

Students eligible for free or discounted lunch at Hadley Junior High School

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Year	# Students	Full-time Teachers	Student/Teacher ratio	% Free/Discounted Lunch
1988	789	52.3	15.0	n/a
1989	806	52.3	15.4	n/a
1990	775	52.8	14.6	n/a
1991	805	53.3	15.1	n/a
1992	852	57.8	14.7	n/a
1993	875	60.3	14.5	n/a
1994	925	62.3	14.8	n/a
1995	971	59.3	16.4	n/a
1996	971	59.3	16.4	n/a
1997	1006	58.3	17.3	n/a
1998	985	59.3	16.6	n/a
1999	1016	59.5	17.1	n/a
2000	1032	61.6	16.8	n/a
2001	1078	66.9	16.1	n/a
2002	1100	75.0	14.7	0
2003	1100	75.0	14.7	0
2004	1107	80.0	13.8	0
2005	1136	82.5	13.8	0
2006	1153	82.2	14.0	0
2007	1150	75.0	15.3	0
2008	1161	70.0	16.6	0
2009	1154	84.0	13.7	0
2010	1148	87.0	13.2	0
2011	1194	82.0	14.5	0
2012	1206	82.1	14.6	18.3
2013	1233	77.8	15.8	20.3
2014	1197	76.0	15.7	22.4
2015	1179	73.0	16.1	23.2
2016	1174	74.0	15.8	19.2
2017	1180	73.6	16.0	21.4
2018	1149	73.9	15.5	20.7
2019	1157	77.1	15.0	23.2
2020	1143	77.2	14.7	23.4
2021	1168	n/a	n/a	n/a
2022	1118	76.1	14.6	20.8
2023	1148	78.6	14.6	n/a

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Dept of Education.

About Students eligible for discounted/free lunch:

The National School Lunch Program (NSLP) provides low-cost or free meals to students in U.S. public and nonprofit private schools based on household income. Those with incomes below 130% of the poverty line receive free lunch, while those between 130% and 185% qualify for reduced-price lunch. The percentage of students receiving free or reduced-price lunch serves as a marker for poverty, as it reflects the socioeconomic status of families in a given school or district. A higher FRPL rate typically indicates a higher concentration of low-income families, suggesting that the school or district may face additional challenges in providing adequate resources and support for student success.

Student/Teacher Ratio Hadley Junior High School

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Year	# Students	Full-time Teachers	Student/Teacher ratio	% Free/Discounted Lunch
1988	789	52.3	15.0	n/a
1989	806	52.3	15.4	n/a
1990	775	52.8	14.6	n/a
1991	805	53.3	15.1	n/a
1992	852	57.8	14.7	n/a
1993	875	60.3	14.5	n/a
1994	925	62.3	14.8	n/a
1995	971	59.3	16.4	n/a
1996	971	59.3	16.4	n/a
1997	1006	58.3	17.3	n/a
1998	985	59.3	16.6	n/a
1999	1016	59.5	17.1	n/a
2000	1032	61.6	16.8	n/a
2001	1078	66.9	16.1	n/a
2002	1100	75.0	14.7	0
2003	1100	75.0	14.7	0
2004	1107	80.0	13.8	0
2005	1136	82.5	13.8	0
2006	1153	82.2	14.0	0
2007	1150	75.0	15.3	0
2008	1161	70.0	16.6	0
2009	1154	84.0	13.7	0
2010	1148	87.0	13.2	0
2011	1194	82.0	14.5	0
2012	1206	82.1	14.6	18.3
2013	1233	77.8	15.8	20.3
2014	1197	76.0	15.7	22.4
2015	1179	73.0	16.1	23.2
2016	1174	74.0	15.8	19.2
2017	1180	73.6	16.0	21.4
2018	1149	73.9	15.5	20.7
2019	1157	77.1	15.0	23.2
2020	1143	77.2	14.7	23.4
2021	1168	n/a	n/a	n/a
2022	1118	76.1	14.6	20.8
2023	1148	78.6	14.6	n/a

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Dept of Education.

About Student-Teacher Ratio

Student/teacher ratio is calculated by dividing the total number of students by the total number of full-time equivalent teachers. Please note that a smaller student/teacher ratio does not necessarily translate to smaller class size. In some instances, schools hire teachers part time, and some teachers are hired for specialized instruction with very small class sizes. These and other factors contribute to the student/teacher ratio. Note: For private schools, Student/teacher ratio may not include Pre-Kindergarten.

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