Carl Sandburg Junior High School

Summary:

Carl Sandburg Junior High School is a public middle school located in Rolling Meadows, Illinois, serving grades 7-8 with a student population of 470. The school is part of the Palatine CCSD 15 district, which is ranked 375 out of 813 districts in Illinois and has a 3-star rating from SchoolDigger.

While the school's academic performance, as measured by proficiency rates in state assessments, is generally below the district and state averages, there are some areas of strength. The school's performance in Science, with 52.3% proficiency, is closer to the district (58.2%) and state (53.2%) averages. However, the school's proficiency rates in English Language Arts (46.5%) and Mathematics (25.7%) for all grades are lower than the Palatine CCSD 15 district (40.2% and 34.5%, respectively) and the Illinois state average (41.2% and 28.4%, respectively). The school's performance has fluctuated over the years, with a higher ranking of 400 out of 1,356 Illinois middle schools in the 2018-2019 school year, but a lower ranking of 711 out of 1,369 in the 2021-2022 school year.

Interestingly, the school's performance varies significantly across different student subgroups. Asian and Hispanic students have the lowest rankings among the subgroups, while the school's performance for Special Education students is relatively strong. The school's performance for Low Socioeconomic Status students is the weakest, ranking in the bottom 50% of Illinois middle schools. Additionally, the school has experienced a significant increase in chronic absenteeism, from 5.1% in the 2019-2020 school year to 19.7% in the 2023-2024 school year, which is above the district and state averages. Nearby schools, such as Plum Grove Junior High School, consistently outperform Carl Sandburg Junior High School in academic metrics, ranking in the top 10% of Illinois middle schools.


Detail:

Public 7-8

 2600 Martin Ln
       Rolling Meadows, IL  60008-2722


(847) 963-7800

District: Palatine CCSD 15

SchoolDigger Rank:
525th of 1,363 Illinois Middle Schools

Per Pupil Expenditures:  $20,377 Help


Feeder schools for Carl Sandburg Junior High School:

Elementary:    Central Road Elementary School
    Kimball Hill Elementary School
    Thomas Jefferson Elementary School

Student/teacher ratio:  12.4 Help
Number of students:  470

Racial breakdown:

White:
44.7%
Hispanic:
40.2%
Asian:
6.8%
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Free/discounted lunch recipients:  43.2% Help


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Compare Details Carl Sandburg Junior High School ranks better than 61.5% of middle schools in Illinois. It also ranks 3rd among 4 ranked middle schools in the Palatine CCSD 15 School District. (See more...)
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Compare Details In 2024 the calculated Average Standard Score was 54.87. (See more...)
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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 Carl Sandburg Junior High School has the largest middle school student body size in the Palatine CCSD 15 School District.  (See more...)
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Compare Details The average total spent per student at Carl Sandburg Junior High School is $20,377, which is the highest among 4 middle schools in the Palatine CCSD 15 School District!
Schooldigger 2024 Rankings:

Carl Sandburg Junior High School:

SchoolDigger ranks Carl Sandburg Junior High School 525th of 1363 Illinois public middle schools. (See Carl Sandburg Junior High School in the ranking list.)

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Palatine CCSD 15:

SchoolDigger ranks Palatine CCSD 15 375th of 813 Illinois school districts. (See district ranking list.)


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Rank History for Carl Sandburg Junior High School

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Rank History for all students at Carl Sandburg Junior High School

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked Middle Schools IL State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2003 83.65 168th 1185 85.8%
2004 79.74 233rd 1204 80.6%
2005 78.81 246th 1209 79.7%
2006 79.54 209th 1272 83.6%
2007 82.67 141st 1287 89.0%
2008 76.88 266th 1293 79.4%
2009 76.74 277th 1318 79.0%
2010 78.05 246th 1327 81.5%
2011 71.80 383rd 1344 71.5%
2012 67.48 470th 1365 65.6%
2013 62.91 488th 1367 64.3%
2014 62.23 490th 1322 62.9%
2015 78.68 222nd 1302 82.9%
2016 55.41 504th 1294 61.1%
2017 59.71 459th 1293 64.5%
2018 59.53 462nd 1293 64.3%
2019 66.71 400th 1356 70.5%
2021 47.29 557th 1241 55.1%
2022 42.20 711th 1369 48.1%
2023 51.36 577th 1367 57.8%
2024 54.87 525th 1363 61.5%
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Rank History for English Language Learner students at Carl Sandburg Junior High School

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked Middle Schools IL State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2018 52.85 72nd 285 74.7%
2019 47.65 125th 339 63.1%
2021 34.52 213th 277 23.1%
2022 26.61 434th 454 4.4%
2023 31.97 373rd 480 22.3%
2024 46.24 197th 486 59.5%
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Rank History for Special Education students at Carl Sandburg Junior High School

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked Middle Schools IL State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2018 56.41 168th 602 72.1%
2019 65.06 143rd 792 81.9%
2021 60.70 108th 548 80.3%
2022 49.25 251st 781 67.9%
2023 75.96 125th 805 84.5%
2024 79.28 122nd 802 84.8%
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Rank History for Low Socio Economic Status students at Carl Sandburg Junior High School

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked Middle Schools IL State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2018 42.41 645th 1161 44.4%
2019 47.93 591st 1217 51.4%
2021 40.15 576th 1019 43.5%
2022 24.45 1001st 1221 18.0%
2023 37.31 774th 1234 37.3%
2024 42.96 648th 1219 46.8%
See the entire list of Best Illinois Middle Schools for Low Socio Economic Status Students!

Rank History for Female students at Carl Sandburg Junior High School

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked Middle Schools IL State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2018 59.06 454th 1226 63.0%
2019 69.95 333rd 1276 73.9%
2021 49.85 451st 1017 55.7%
2022 42.61 671st 1286 47.8%
2023 45.71 627th 1275 50.8%
2024 50.85 543rd 1251 56.6%
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Rank History for Disabled students at Carl Sandburg Junior High School

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked Middle Schools IL State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2023 53.11 221st 674 67.2%
2024 51.40 214th 639 66.5%
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Rank History for Male students at Carl Sandburg Junior High School

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked Middle Schools IL State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2018 56.45 471st 1223 61.5%
2019 60.23 451st 1296 65.2%
2021 38.63 584th 1048 44.3%
2022 41.46 672nd 1286 47.7%
2023 56.70 458th 1292 64.6%
2024 57.00 451st 1264 64.3%
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Rank History for Asian students at Carl Sandburg Junior High School

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked Middle Schools IL State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2018 59.16 76th 209 63.6%
2019 39.72 133rd 201 33.8%
2022 22.63 167th 198 15.7%
2023 30.92 145th 192 24.5%
2024 36.06 133rd 184 27.7%
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Rank History for African American students at Carl Sandburg Junior High School

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked Middle Schools IL State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2023 47.12 243rd 569 57.3%
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Rank History for Hispanic students at Carl Sandburg Junior High School

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked Middle Schools IL State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2018 25.95 480th 590 18.6%
2019 37.94 394th 639 38.3%
2021 26.16 418th 517 19.1%
2022 22.01 569th 662 14.0%
2023 30.15 477th 661 27.8%
2024 26.92 494th 643 23.2%
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Rank History for White students at Carl Sandburg Junior High School

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked Middle Schools IL State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2018 57.20 355th 889 60.1%
2019 64.64 290th 905 68.0%
2021 49.58 374th 813 54.0%
2022 37.09 546th 898 39.2%
2023 50.92 398th 895 55.5%
2024 51.88 402nd 875 54.1%
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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 Carl Sandburg 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 420 3 33 31 n/a n/a n/a 0 487
1989 454 3 31 29 n/a n/a n/a 0 517
1990 496 5 30 44 n/a n/a n/a 0 575
1991 424 5 27 46 0 n/a n/a 0 502
1992 408 11 26 53 0 n/a n/a 0 498
1993 477 3 24 66 0 n/a n/a 0 570
1994 447 8 22 79 0 n/a n/a 0 556
1995 434 9 28 68 1 n/a n/a 0 540
1996 434 9 28 68 1 n/a n/a 0 540
1997 415 5 23 74 2 n/a n/a 0 519
1998 408 12 31 91 1 n/a n/a 0 543
1999 399 25 37 94 0 n/a n/a 0 555
2000 417 17 33 80 3 n/a n/a 0 550
2001 458 15 32 88 1 n/a n/a 0 594
2002 473 11 54 124 2 n/a n/a 0 664
2003 473 11 54 124 2 n/a n/a 0 664
2004 461 23 48 129 0 n/a n/a 0 661
2005 397 20 37 141 7 n/a n/a 3 605
2006 373 11 46 161 3 n/a n/a 3 597
2007 376 16 36 179 2 n/a n/a 1 610
2008 364 11 38 181 2 n/a n/a 5 601
2009 341 5 44 165 0 n/a n/a 7 562
2010 320 11 42 159 0 n/a n/a 4 536
2011 299 12 48 157 3 0 4 0 523
2012 282 9 49 180 0 0 8 0 528
2013 288 12 47 216 1 0 12 0 576
2014 270 13 52 223 1 0 15 0 574
2015 244 12 51 218 2 0 17 0 544
2016 229 11 42 214 1 0 11 0 508
2017 215 8 48 205 2 0 12 0 490
2018 222 9 54 199 1 0 11 0 496
2019 249 14 45 209 0 0 13 0 530
2020 245 8 39 195 3 1 17 0 508
2021 213 9 39 199 1 1 13 0 475
2022 187 15 38 154 0 1 11 0 406
2023 210 21 32 189 0 1 17 0 470

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 Carl Sandburg Junior High School

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Year # Students Full-time Teachers Student/Teacher ratio % Free/Discounted Lunch
1988 487 35.4 13.7 n/a
1989 517 35.9 14.4 n/a
1990 575 39.3 14.6 n/a
1991 502 38.5 13.0 n/a
1992 498 38.0 13.1 n/a
1993 570 41.0 13.9 n/a
1994 556 40.0 13.9 n/a
1995 540 41.6 13.0 n/a
1996 540 41.6 13.0 n/a
1997 519 40.0 13.0 n/a
1998 543 41.5 13.1 n/a
1999 555 45.0 12.3 n/a
2000 550 45.5 12.1 n/a
2001 594 46.3 12.8 n/a
2002 664 46.3 14.3 21.4
2003 664 46.3 14.3 21.4
2004 661 46.2 14.3 21.2
2005 605 46.5 13.0 26.9
2006 597 39.0 15.3 30.1
2007 610 37.0 16.5 31.4
2008 601 33.0 18.2 32.7
2009 562 40.0 14.1 31
2010 536 39.3 13.6 33.3
2011 523 35.0 14.9 36.1
2012 528 35.0 15.0 37.1
2013 576 58.3 9.8 44.3
2014 574 39.0 14.7 46
2015 544 41.0 13.2 45.4
2016 508 38.0 13.3 43.5
2017 490 32.7 14.9 48.6
2018 496 32.8 15.1 45.8
2019 530 36.9 14.3 45.7
2020 508 38.4 13.2 43.9
2021 475 n/a n/a n/a
2022 406 39.9 10.1 36.9
2023 470 37.8 12.4 43.2

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 Carl Sandburg Junior High School

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Year # Students Full-time Teachers Student/Teacher ratio % Free/Discounted Lunch
1988 487 35.4 13.7 n/a
1989 517 35.9 14.4 n/a
1990 575 39.3 14.6 n/a
1991 502 38.5 13.0 n/a
1992 498 38.0 13.1 n/a
1993 570 41.0 13.9 n/a
1994 556 40.0 13.9 n/a
1995 540 41.6 13.0 n/a
1996 540 41.6 13.0 n/a
1997 519 40.0 13.0 n/a
1998 543 41.5 13.1 n/a
1999 555 45.0 12.3 n/a
2000 550 45.5 12.1 n/a
2001 594 46.3 12.8 n/a
2002 664 46.3 14.3 21.4
2003 664 46.3 14.3 21.4
2004 661 46.2 14.3 21.2
2005 605 46.5 13.0 26.9
2006 597 39.0 15.3 30.1
2007 610 37.0 16.5 31.4
2008 601 33.0 18.2 32.7
2009 562 40.0 14.1 31
2010 536 39.3 13.6 33.3
2011 523 35.0 14.9 36.1
2012 528 35.0 15.0 37.1
2013 576 58.3 9.8 44.3
2014 574 39.0 14.7 46
2015 544 41.0 13.2 45.4
2016 508 38.0 13.3 43.5
2017 490 32.7 14.9 48.6
2018 496 32.8 15.1 45.8
2019 530 36.9 14.3 45.7
2020 508 38.4 13.2 43.9
2021 475 n/a n/a n/a
2022 406 39.9 10.1 36.9
2023 470 37.8 12.4 43.2

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

Carl Sandburg Junior High School

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YearPolioMeaslesMumpsRubellaHepatitis BVaricellaDTPMeningococcal
201599.6%99.3%99.1%99.1%99.3%99.6%99.6%
201699.8%99.6%99.6%99.6%99.8%99.6%0.4%
201799.2%99.0%99.0%99.0%98.8%99.4%99.0%48.5%
201899.2%99.0%99.0%99.0%99.4%99.0%99.2%99.2%
201998.7%99.1%99.1%99.1%98.7%98.7%99.1%98.3%
202199.2%99.4%99.4%99.4%99.2%99.4%99.4%97.9%
202299.8%99.6%99.6%99.6%99.8%98.9%100.0%98.9%
202398.5%99.2%99.2%99.2%97.9%96.8%98.7%98.5%
202497.3%98.0%98.0%98.0%98.2%98.0%97.7%96.8%

Data source: Illinois State Board of Education
Finances

Per Pupil Expenditures for Carl Sandburg Junior High School

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YearExpenditures from Federal FundsExpenditures from State and Local FundsTotal Expenditures Per Pupil (All Funds)
2019 $484 (3.4%) $13,809 (96.6%) $14,292
2020 $518 (3.5%) $14,490 (96.5%) $15,008
2021 $772 (4.8%) $15,195 (95.2%) $15,967
2022 $772 (4.8%) $15,195 (95.2%) $15,967
2023 $994 (5.5%) $17,223 (94.5%) $18,217
2024 $777 (3.8%) $19,600 (96.2%) $20,377

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

Impact of COVID-19 on Carl Sandburg Junior High School

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Rankings

Rank
Pre-pandemic (2018-2019)
Rank
Post pandemic (2022-2023)
Change (%)
Ranks 400th of 1356 Middle schoolsRanks 577th of 1367 Middle schools
 12.7%

Test Scores

% proficient
Pre-pandemic (2018-2019)
% proficient
Post pandemic (2022-2023)
Change (%)
7th Grade English Language Arts (Carl Sandburg Junior High School)38.245.3
 7.1%
   7th Grade English Language Arts (Palatine CCSD 15)42.344.3
 2%
   7th Grade English Language Arts (Illinois)41.237.9
 3.3%
7th Grade Mathematics (Carl Sandburg Junior High School)35.433.6
 1.8%
   7th Grade Mathematics (Palatine CCSD 15)41.440.5
 0.9%
   7th Grade Mathematics (Illinois)29.926.9
 3%
8th Grade English Language Arts (Carl Sandburg Junior High School)51.332.1
 19.2%
   8th Grade English Language Arts (Palatine CCSD 15)48.340.5
 7.8%
   8th Grade English Language Arts (Illinois)39.640.5
 0.9%
8th Grade Mathematics (Carl Sandburg Junior High School)34.615.8
 18.8%
   8th Grade Mathematics (Palatine CCSD 15)44.129.2
 14.9%
   8th Grade Mathematics (Illinois)32.625.7
 6.9%
8th Grade Science (Carl Sandburg Junior High School)61.643.5
 18.1%
   8th Grade Science (Palatine CCSD 15)61.648.2
 13.4%
   8th Grade Science (Illinois)5552
 3%

Student Body

Number of students
Pre-pandemic (2018-2019)
Number of students
Post pandemic (2022-2023)
Change (%)
Total Students530470
 11.3%
African American1421
 50%
American Indian00
Asian4532
 28.9%
Hispanic209189
 9.6%
Pacific Islander01
White249210
 15.7%
Two or More Races1317
 30.8%
% Free/Discounted Lunch Recipients45.7%43.2%
 2.5%


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Carl Sandburg Junior High School ranks 525th of 1363 Illinois middle schools. SchoolDigger rates this school 3 stars out of 5.

In the 2022-23 school year, 470 students attended Carl Sandburg Junior High School.

Students at Carl Sandburg Junior High School are 45% White, 40% Hispanic, 7% Asian, 4% African American, 4% Two or more races.


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