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Middle · Regular · Grades 6 to 8

Friendship Junior High School, Des Plaines, IL

Friendship Junior High School is a public middle school in Des Plaines, part of Comm Cons SD 59. It enrolled 633 students in 2024-25, with 10.7 students per full-time teacher.Listed in NCES data as "Friendship Jr High School".

Enrollment and teachers

Students
633
Teachers (FTE)
59.0
Students per teacher
10.7
Grades
6 to 8

This school's ratio is about the same as the district figure of 10.8. The Illinois average across schools is 13.7. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.

This school10.7
District10.8
Illinois13.7
United States15.3

School details

Address
550 Elizabeth Ln, Des Plaines, IL 60018
Phone
(847)593-4350
District
Comm Cons SD 59
County
Cook County
Level
Middle
Type
Regular
Status
Open
Charter
No
Virtual
No
Locale
City: Small
NCES school ID
171377001730
Location from NCES coordinates. Map data OpenStreetMap contributors. Open larger map

School meals

Counts of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, as reported to NCES.
Free or reduced-price lunch
38961.5% of enrollment.
Community Eligibility Provision
No

Schools in the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) serve free meals to all students, so their free lunch counts often reflect direct certification or total enrollment. Free and reduced lunch shares are not comparable between CEP and non-CEP schools.

Related schools

Other middle schools in Comm Cons SD 59

Middle schools elsewhere in Des Plaines

We publish official enrollment and staffing data, not ratings or test scores.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 and F-33 finance 2020, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. Last reviewed October 2026. Blank values are not available, not applicable or suppressed in the source. See the methodology.