The top reported proficiency rate is 76% in English language arts. The lowest is 66% in Math.
Original Research by School Decision on Aptakisic Junior High School
Aptakisic Junior High School is a six-through-eight middle school in Buffalo Grove, a quiet northwest-suburban village straddling Lake and Cook counties. The school serves a student body of about nine hundred students, roughly three-fifths of whom identify as Asian, with white, Hispanic, and multiracial students making up most of the remainder. The neighborhood is mature and family-oriented, dominated by post-World War II subdivisions and later Lake County growth, with corporate parks and retail strips along McHenry Road providing the commercial base.
The school's test results show proficiency that is solid in the upper grades and more varied in the lower ones. In grade six, math proficiency stands at roughly sixty-three percent while English language arts reaches seventy-five percent. Grade seven improves: math rises to around seventy-one percent and ELA holds at about seventy-five percent. Grade eight shows math at about sixty-three percent but ELA strengthens to roughly seventy-nine percent. Science proficiency in grade eight sits at about seventy-five percent. These results position the school above the midpoint among Lake County districts on a overall proficiency measure, a meaningful standing. Test participation rates are high, consistently in the high ninety-percentile range across subjects and grades.
The school's profile is notably affluent in demographic composition and housing context. The surrounding zip code has a median home value in the low hundreds of thousands of dollars and median monthly rent around twenty-three hundred dollars. These figures place the community well above state and national housing benchmarks. Free or reduced price lunch data was not available, so the economic profile of families within the school itself remains unmeasured, though the community setting suggests relatively high household income. A narrow majority of students are Asian American, and the student body is overall economically and educationally stable.
Aptakisic-Tripp CCSD 102, the district encompassing the school, passed a significant building bond in a close vote in April 2023 that authorized facility improvements including safety upgrades, mechanical system replacements, renovated instructional space, new science classrooms, and a new gymnasium at Aptakisic Junior High. That gymnasium was completed in 2024 through a land exchange with the Buffalo Grove Park District. The bond carries a material property tax impact of roughly several hundred dollars per year on a median home in the district, a lasting financial commitment families should factor into residency decisions.
Graduation rate data does not apply here because the school serves only middle grades. No information on special education enrollment, English learner populations, discipline, or course-access details was available. The school's website or the district office can provide parents with deeper dives into programs, classroom composition, or supports for students with specific learning profiles. Buffalo Grove itself sits at a transit crossroads, with two Metra stations serving commute access to Chicago, though the built environment is thoroughly auto-oriented and dispersed. Several major mixed-use redevelopments, notably The Clove, are reshaping the village's character from purely residential toward a more concentrated town center.
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