Wilmette Junior High School

Wilmette Junior High School serves 770 seventh and eighth graders in Wilmette, Illinois, operating as a regular public school with no selective admissions. It earns a composite score of 9.0 out of 10 — rated Exceptional — built on an academic score of 9.5 and a growth score of 8.2. Those ratings cover the entire enrolled student body, not a selective subset.

The school ranks 15th out of 684 public middle schools in Illinois and outperforms 97 percent of all 3,813 public schools in the state. That comparison spans every grade level in Illinois — a broader benchmark than middle-school peers alone. Among Wilmette's seven public schools, it holds third place overall.

A student-teacher ratio of 12.2 to 1 gives students more direct teacher access than most public middle schools provide. At 770 students spread across just two grade levels, the campus operates at a scale that supports close instruction. The 9.5 academic score and 8.2 growth score reflect strong performance across two distinct measures: current achievement and year-over-year progress — both of which feed into the school's Exceptional composite.