Middle · Illinois
Shields Middle School
Free meals for allShields Middle School, a public middle school in Chicago, Illinois: grades 5–8, 330 students, 10.8 students per teacher (2024–25 school year). Part of Chicago Public Schools Dist 299.
Size and class size
Compared with middle schools of the same state and the whole country. Students per teacher counts every full-time-equivalent teacher, not the size of each class.
- Students
- 330
- Teachers (FTE)
- 30.5
- Students per teacher
- 10.8
- Grades
- 5–8
- Middle
Fewer students per teacher than 82% of middle schools in Illinois
Median 12.7 · 689 schools compared
Fewer students per teacher than 86% of middle schools in the US
Median 14.6 · 15,584 schools compared
Smaller than 61% of middle schools in Illinois
Median 428 · 691 schools compared
Smaller than 72% of middle schools in the US
Median 524 · 16,046 schools compared
What it offers
- Grades
- Middle · Grades 5–8
- Type
- District school · Regular
- Instruction
- In person
- Meals
- Free breakfast and lunch for every student
- Area
- Large city
Which school a home is assigned to is decided by the district's attendance zones; check with Chicago Public Schools Dist 299.
Location
- Address
- 2611 W 48th St, Chicago, IL 60632
- Phone
- (773)535-7115
- City or town
- Chicago
- County
- Cook County
Nearby middle schools
The closest public middle schools by straight-line distance. Attendance zones are set by each district.
| School | Grades | Students | Students / teacher |
|---|---|---|---|
Hernandez Middle SchoolFree meals for all | 6–8 | 720 | 14.4 |
Evergreen Academy Elem SchoolFree meals for all | 6–8 | 191 | 9.1 |
Richardson Middle SchoolFree meals for all | 5–8 | 844 | 14.8 |
Madero Middle SchoolFree meals for all | 6–8 | 231 | 9.9 |
Gary Elem SchoolFree meals for all | 3–8 | 711 | 13.4 |
| 4–6 | 411 | 14.6 |
Sources
- Public schools and school districts (National Center for Education Statistics · U.S. Census Bureau), 2024–25 school year. NCES Common Core of Data and EDGE public school geocodes; U.S. Census Bureau, Annual Survey of School System Finances and cartographic boundary files (places).
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