Bednarcik Junior High School

Summary:

Bednarcik Junior High School is a public middle school located in Aurora, Illinois, serving grades 6-8 with a student population of 571. The school is part of the Cusd 308 district, which is ranked 322 out of 813 districts in Illinois and has a 3-star rating from SchoolDigger. Bednarcik Junior High School has consistently ranked in the top 20% of Illinois middle schools over the past decade, with a current statewide ranking of 199 out of 1,363 middle schools and a 4-star rating from SchoolDigger.

Bednarcik Junior High School consistently outperforms the Cusd 308 district and the state of Illinois in standardized test scores across all grade levels and subject areas, with 64.5% of students proficient or better in ELA and 42.7% in Mathematics, compared to 45% and 32.2% for the district, and 41.2% and 28.4% for the state, respectively. The school's performance is particularly strong in 8th grade ELA, where 70% of students were proficient or better, compared to 58.3% for the district and 49.9% for the state. Bednarcik also excels in supporting the academic achievement of various student subgroups, including African American, Hispanic, and English Language Learner students, ranking in the top 50, 129, and 101 out of Illinois middle schools, respectively.

While Bednarcik Junior High School outperforms nearby Murphy Junior High School and Thompson Junior High School in the Cusd 308 district, it faces competition from high-performing schools in the neighboring Indian Prairie CUSD 204 district, such as Still Middle School, Gordon Gregory Middle School, and Clifford Crone Middle School, particularly in Mathematics and Science. However, Bednarcik's sustained excellence over the years suggests that it has established effective educational practices and a strong commitment to student success.


Detail:

Public 6-8

 3025 Heggs Rd
       Aurora, IL  60503-6407


(630) 636-2500

District: Cusd 308

SchoolDigger Rank:
199th of 1,363 Illinois Middle Schools

Per Pupil Expenditures:  $16,493 Help


Students who attend Bednarcik Junior High School usually attend:

High:    Oswego East High School

Feeder schools for Bednarcik Junior High School:

Elementary:    The Wheatlands Elementary School
    Wolfs Crossing Elementary School

Student/teacher ratio:  14.6 Help
Number of students:  571

Racial breakdown:

White:
46.2%
Hispanic:
18.9%
Asian:
18.6%
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Free/discounted lunch recipients:  20.8% Help


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Performance Trends
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Compare Details Bednarcik Junior High School ranks better than 85.4% of middle schools in Illinois. It also ranks first among 5 ranked middle schools in the Cusd 308 School District! (See more...)
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Compare Details In 2024 the calculated Average Standard Score was 83.41. (See more...)
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Chronic absenteeism in a high 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.
Student Body
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Compare Details Bednarcik Junior High School has the largest middle school student body size in the Cusd 308 School District.  (See more...)
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Compare Details The average total spent per student at Bednarcik Junior High School is $16,493, which is the highest among 5 middle schools in the Cusd 308 School District!
Schooldigger 2024 Rankings:

Bednarcik Junior High School:

SchoolDigger ranks Bednarcik Junior High School 199th of 1363 Illinois public middle schools. (See Bednarcik Junior High School in the ranking list.)

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Cusd 308:

SchoolDigger ranks Cusd 308 322nd of 813 Illinois school districts. (See district ranking list.)


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Rank History for Bednarcik Junior High School

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Rank History for all students at Bednarcik Junior High School

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked Middle Schools IL State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2003 66.22 438th 1185 63.0%
2004 69.87 396th 1204 67.1%
2005 65.65 488th 1209 59.6%
2006 67.88 437th 1272 65.6%
2007 72.59 338th 1287 73.7%
2008 70.54 403rd 1293 68.8%
2009 73.29 342nd 1318 74.1%
2010 75.29 307th 1327 76.9%
2011 78.94 222nd 1344 83.5%
2012 83.59 136th 1365 90.0%
2013 85.67 155th 1367 88.7%
2014 88.43 111th 1322 91.6%
2015 94.55 57th 1302 95.6%
2016 90.14 96th 1294 92.6%
2017 87.10 137th 1293 89.4%
2018 88.40 121st 1293 90.6%
2019 85.64 163rd 1356 88.0%
2021 77.06 228th 1241 81.6%
2022 79.63 224th 1369 83.6%
2023 83.55 182nd 1367 86.7%
2024 83.41 199th 1363 85.4%
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Rank History for Multi-racial students at Bednarcik Junior High School

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked Middle Schools IL State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2018 74.25 39th 164 76.2%
2019 75.63 35th 179 80.4%
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Rank History for English Language Learner students at Bednarcik Junior High School

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked Middle Schools IL State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2023 65.82 65th 480 86.5%
2024 61.67 101st 486 79.2%
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Rank History for Special Education students at Bednarcik Junior High School

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked Middle Schools IL State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2018 54.12 187th 602 68.9%
2019 42.88 343rd 792 56.7%
2021 30.29 415th 548 24.3%
2022 41.15 363rd 781 53.5%
2023 47.23 306th 805 62.0%
2024 64.40 202nd 802 74.8%
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Rank History for Low Socio Economic Status students at Bednarcik Junior High School

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked Middle Schools IL State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2018 77.60 156th 1161 86.6%
2019 83.26 107th 1217 91.2%
2021 73.06 140th 1019 86.3%
2022 70.07 232nd 1221 81.0%
2023 76.50 165th 1234 86.6%
2024 74.98 184th 1219 84.9%
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Rank History for Female students at Bednarcik Junior High School

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked Middle Schools IL State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2018 88.50 101st 1226 91.8%
2019 84.76 146th 1276 88.6%
2021 73.39 222nd 1017 78.2%
2022 77.62 238th 1286 81.5%
2023 84.49 146th 1275 88.5%
2024 83.36 165th 1251 86.8%
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Rank History for Disabled students at Bednarcik Junior High School

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked Middle Schools IL State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2023 57.12 185th 674 72.6%
2024 60.89 160th 639 75.0%
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Rank History for Male students at Bednarcik Junior High School

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked Middle Schools IL State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2018 85.58 135th 1223 89.0%
2019 84.29 164th 1296 87.3%
2021 73.24 211th 1048 79.9%
2022 79.56 195th 1286 84.8%
2023 79.65 194th 1292 85.0%
2024 80.60 202nd 1264 84.0%
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Rank History for Asian students at Bednarcik Junior High School

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked Middle Schools IL State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2018 70.86 48th 209 77.0%
2019 65.36 65th 201 67.7%
2021 47.48 59th 112 47.3%
2022 56.34 89th 198 55.1%
2023 63.87 70th 192 63.5%
2024 67.77 59th 184 67.9%
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Rank History for African American students at Bednarcik Junior High School

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked Middle Schools IL State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2018 85.53 34th 511 93.3%
2019 87.90 37th 565 93.5%
2021 93.69 12th 385 96.9%
2022 95.49 17th 573 97.0%
2023 87.99 27th 569 95.3%
2024 79.25 50th 548 90.9%
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Rank History for Hispanic students at Bednarcik Junior High School

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked Middle Schools IL State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2018 77.01 96th 590 83.7%
2019 74.18 102nd 639 84.0%
2021 62.87 121st 517 76.6%
2022 57.63 201st 662 69.6%
2023 75.90 103rd 661 84.4%
2024 72.11 129th 643 79.9%
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Rank History for White students at Bednarcik Junior High School

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked Middle Schools IL State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2018 82.08 105th 889 88.2%
2019 74.36 179th 905 80.2%
2021 61.32 263rd 813 67.7%
2022 63.72 274th 898 69.5%
2023 71.44 203rd 895 77.3%
2024 69.48 216th 875 75.3%
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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.

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Enrollment information for Bednarcik Junior High School

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Year White African American Asian Hispanic American Indian Pacific Islander Two or More Races Not Specified Total
2002 258 61 40 54 3 n/a n/a 0 416
2003 258 61 40 54 3 n/a n/a 0 416
2004 324 72 55 89 2 n/a n/a 0 542
2005 482 129 88 154 1 n/a n/a 7 861
2006 422 114 83 168 2 n/a n/a 14 803
2007 358 116 77 129 0 n/a n/a 18 698
2008 372 124 82 152 0 n/a n/a 28 758
2009 410 106 97 164 0 n/a n/a 24 801
2010 438 123 104 141 0 n/a n/a 35 841
2011 532 114 116 149 1 0 42 0 954
2012 574 115 127 107 0 0 51 0 974
2013 380 66 80 52 0 0 36 0 614
2014 383 59 96 56 0 0 42 0 636
2015 419 76 111 62 0 0 45 0 713
2016 403 75 115 78 0 0 44 0 715
2017 400 77 125 71 4 0 42 0 719
2018 396 76 108 99 1 0 32 0 712
2019 401 79 100 92 1 0 27 0 700
2020 405 62 83 97 1 0 25 0 673
2021 359 61 83 95 1 0 25 0 624
2022 316 58 77 97 1 0 29 1 579
2023 264 64 106 108 1 0 28 0 571

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 Bednarcik Junior High School

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Year # Students Full-time Teachers Student/Teacher ratio % Free/Discounted Lunch
2002 416 29.0 14.3 7.9
2003 416 29.0 14.3 7.9
2004 542 30.5 17.8 11.6
2005 861 41.3 20.8 10.9
2006 803 40.0 20.1 8.2
2007 698 34.0 20.5 11.6
2008 758 37.0 20.5 17.7
2009 801 44.8 17.9 17.8
2010 841 45.7 18.4 18.9
2011 954 44.7 21.3 18.7
2012 974 50.1 19.4 16.1
2013 614 45.7 13.4 19.2
2014 636 39.2 16.1 18.9
2015 713 39.0 18.2 19.1
2016 715 42.0 17.0 15.4
2017 719 42.3 16.9 13.9
2018 712 42.5 16.7 17.6
2019 700 39.0 17.9 19.1
2020 673 43.1 15.5 15.6
2021 624 n/a n/a n/a
2022 579 40.1 14.4 17.8
2023 571 39.0 14.6 20.8

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 Bednarcik Junior High School

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Year # Students Full-time Teachers Student/Teacher ratio % Free/Discounted Lunch
2002 416 29.0 14.3 7.9
2003 416 29.0 14.3 7.9
2004 542 30.5 17.8 11.6
2005 861 41.3 20.8 10.9
2006 803 40.0 20.1 8.2
2007 698 34.0 20.5 11.6
2008 758 37.0 20.5 17.7
2009 801 44.8 17.9 17.8
2010 841 45.7 18.4 18.9
2011 954 44.7 21.3 18.7
2012 974 50.1 19.4 16.1
2013 614 45.7 13.4 19.2
2014 636 39.2 16.1 18.9
2015 713 39.0 18.2 19.1
2016 715 42.0 17.0 15.4
2017 719 42.3 16.9 13.9
2018 712 42.5 16.7 17.6
2019 700 39.0 17.9 19.1
2020 673 43.1 15.5 15.6
2021 624 n/a n/a n/a
2022 579 40.1 14.4 17.8
2023 571 39.0 14.6 20.8

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.

Immunization Rates

Bednarcik Junior High School

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YearPolioMeaslesMumpsRubellaHepatitis BVaricellaDTPMeningococcal
201598.0%99.0%99.2%99.2%98.9%98.9%99.4%
201699.0%98.9%99.2%99.2%98.9%98.3%32.2%
201799.0%99.0%99.0%99.0%99.2%98.2%99.0%63.7%
201898.6%98.3%98.3%98.3%97.5%98.2%98.6%96.7%
201999.0%99.0%99.0%99.0%99.0%97.9%99.0%95.0%
202199.2%98.9%98.9%98.9%98.7%97.6%98.9%91.8%
202298.6%98.6%98.6%98.6%98.8%98.3%98.8%97.4%
202398.0%97.8%97.8%97.8%97.5%97.5%97.8%97.1%
202497.2%98.3%98.3%98.3%97.6%97.4%97.6%97.0%

Data source: Illinois State Board of Education
Finances

Per Pupil Expenditures for Bednarcik Junior High School

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YearExpenditures from Federal FundsExpenditures from State and Local FundsTotal Expenditures Per Pupil (All Funds)
2019 $199 (1.6%) $12,295 (98.4%) $12,494
2020 $132 (1.1%) $12,215 (98.9%) $12,347
2021 $326 (2.5%) $12,792 (97.5%) $13,119
2022 $326 (2.5%) $12,792 (97.5%) $13,119
2023 $629 (4.1%) $14,734 (95.9%) $15,363
2024 $590 (3.6%) $15,903 (96.4%) $16,493

Data source: Illinois Department of Education
Pre and Post Pandemic Data

Impact of COVID-19 on Bednarcik Junior High School

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Rankings

Rank
Pre-pandemic (2018-2019)
Rank
Post pandemic (2022-2023)
Change (%)
Ranks 163rd of 1356 Middle schoolsRanks 182nd of 1367 Middle schools
 1.3%

Test Scores

% proficient
Pre-pandemic (2018-2019)
% proficient
Post pandemic (2022-2023)
Change (%)
6th Grade English Language Arts (Bednarcik Junior High School)50.560
 9.5%
   6th Grade English Language Arts (Cusd 308)39.837.8
 2%
   6th Grade English Language Arts (Illinois)3534.2
 0.8%
6th Grade Mathematics (Bednarcik Junior High School)42.241.8
 0.4%
   6th Grade Mathematics (Cusd 308)32.929.5
 3.4%
   6th Grade Mathematics (Illinois)25.323.4
 1.9%
7th Grade English Language Arts (Bednarcik Junior High School)56.653
 3.6%
   7th Grade English Language Arts (Cusd 308)47.845.2
 2.6%
   7th Grade English Language Arts (Illinois)41.237.9
 3.3%
7th Grade Mathematics (Bednarcik Junior High School)50.238.4
 11.8%
   7th Grade Mathematics (Cusd 308)34.930.4
 4.5%
   7th Grade Mathematics (Illinois)29.926.9
 3%
8th Grade English Language Arts (Bednarcik Junior High School)6456.3
 7.7%
   8th Grade English Language Arts (Cusd 308)48.547.6
 0.9%
   8th Grade English Language Arts (Illinois)39.640.5
 0.9%
8th Grade Mathematics (Bednarcik Junior High School)48.539.8
 8.7%
   8th Grade Mathematics (Cusd 308)41.827.4
 14.4%
   8th Grade Mathematics (Illinois)32.625.7
 6.9%
8th Grade Science (Bednarcik Junior High School)69.968.5
 1.4%
   8th Grade Science (Cusd 308)62.157.5
 4.6%
   8th Grade Science (Illinois)5552
 3%

Student Body

Number of students
Pre-pandemic (2018-2019)
Number of students
Post pandemic (2022-2023)
Change (%)
Total Students700571
 18.4%
African American7964
 19%
American Indian11
Asian100106
 6%
Hispanic92108
 17.4%
Pacific Islander00
White401264
 34.2%
Two or More Races2728
 3.7%
% Free/Discounted Lunch Recipients19.1%20.8%
 1.7%


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Frequently Asked Questions about Bednarcik Junior High School

Students who attend Bednarcik Junior High School usually go on to attend Oswego East High School

In the 2022-23 school year, 571 students attended Bednarcik Junior High School.

Bednarcik Junior High School ranks 199th of 1363 Illinois middle schools. SchoolDigger rates this school 4 stars out of 5.

Students at Bednarcik Junior High School are 46% White, 19% Hispanic, 19% Asian, 11% African American, 5% Two or more races.


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