Lake Zurich Middle - S Campus, Lake Zurich IL

Original Research by School Decision on Lake Zurich Middle - S Campus

Lake Zurich Middle - S Campus is a middle school serving grades six through eight in a northwest Chicago suburb with about half of a typical mid-sized district's middle enrollment. The school sits on a campus-oriented model rather than integrated into downtown Lake Zurich's civic core; it shares the educational landscape with other schools across the district's territory in Ela Township.

The school's proficiency results show solid performance. In English language arts, the school achieves proficiency rates that rise across the grade span, with sixth grade at a strong level, seventh grade notably higher, and eighth grade near that same upper range. Math proficiency grows from sixth to seventh grade and holds steady into eighth grade at a respectable level. Eighth-grade science proficiency aligns with eighth-grade math. Testing participation is complete across these grades. The pattern reads as a school where students show improving reading and writing command and steady, functional mathematics skills as they progress through the middle years.

Measured against the comparison set of districts in Lake County, the school's overall proficiency index places it in the top quartile. This positioning reflects the school's consistent results across tested subjects and grades relative to a peer set of around fifty Lake County districts.

The student body is predominantly White, with Asian students forming a secondary presence. The school does not report free-or-reduced-price-lunch rates or special populations data (English learners and students with individualized education plans), so those enrollment details were not available. Overall enrollment is small to mid-range for a middle school.

No state assessment data exist for grades three, four, and five at this school because middle schools do not serve those grades; the reported math and ELA results are for grades six through eight only.

Lake Zurich as a place mixes suburban residential fabric with a small downtown core anchored by a namesake lake and downtown redevelopment efforts underway since the mid-2000s. The village has a sizable manufacturing and retail employment base and independent retailers in the downtown, creating a suburban-with-small-town texture rather than an urban one. Families considering this school are choosing a campus-based suburban school in a community with ongoing housing turnover and new-construction activity, including both modest single-family developments and recent senior housing. The housing market shows active listing activity and median prices consistent with north-suburban Chicago. Lake Zurich CUSD 95, the district, completed a full replacement of May Whitney Elementary School, announced formal guidance on artificial intelligence in classrooms through its Empower95 strategic plan, and earned National Blue Ribbon School recognition for both the high school and Middle School North, a signal of academic strength across the district's secondary schools.

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Academic performance

How students perform on state tests, by grade, set against the district.

Math

Grade 666%

School 66% · District 66%

▲ 42 pts above state median · ▲ 35 pts above county median

Grade 780%

School 80% · District 72% · ▲ 8 pts above district

▲ 51 pts above state median · ▲ 35 pts above county median

Grade 876%

School 76% · District 67% · ▲ 9 pts above district

▲ 53 pts above state median · ▲ 38 pts above county median

English language arts

Grade 686%

School 86% · District 84% · ▲ 2 pts above district

▲ 35 pts above state median · ▲ 27 pts above county median

Grade 793%

School 93% · District 85% · ▲ 8 pts above district

▲ 42 pts above state median · ▲ 31 pts above county median

Grade 885%

School 85% · District 81% · ▲ 5 pts above district

▲ 32 pts above state median · ▲ 26 pts above county median

Science

Grade 876%

School 76% · District 72% · ▲ 4 pts above district

▲ 36 pts above state median · ▲ 18 pts above county median

This schoolLake Zurich CUSD 95, same grade

Graduation rate (ACGR) reflects the federally published Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate for the most recent year available. We refresh this data annually at the close of each academic year in June. The federal source publishes a banded rate (for example, "90-94%") instead of an exact number for cohorts small enough to risk identifying individual students. The state distribution chart, where shown, plots every school in the state with a published rate or band; schools whose rate is federally suppressed are excluded. Where the federal source publishes a band rather than an exact rate, the school is placed within its band using a stable, ID-derived offset, so its position is consistent across visits.