Unity Junior High School is a relatively new public school that serves more than 2,400 students in seventh and eighth grades. The school looks to interweave students, parents and the local community to create lifelong learners and global citizens. It supports students by providing an equitable, safe, positive and healthy learning environment.
Unity Junior High uses a proficiency scale for grading that has four levels of proficiency, with one being the lowest and four being the highest. Students who earn a proficiency standard of three or four for all their quarterly classes are put on the Academic Honor Roll.
Extracurricular activities include a reading club, mechanical robotics group, National Junior Honor Society, service-learning club, student council, yearbook club and more. Sports offered to students include soccer, bowling, volleyball, softball, wrestling, Special Olympics, basketball and dance.
A recent survey of students and teachers recognized the school as having strong student-teacher trust. Most students who participated in the survey said teachers treat students with respect and listen to students’ ideas.
Unity Jr High School
Public Middle School
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Grade 7-8
2115 S 54th Ave,
Cicero, IL
Cicero District 99
School Details
Head of School
Ms. Donata Heppner
Student Teacher Ratio
15:1
Math Proficiency
6%
Reading Proficiency
13%
Niche Grade
C-
C
Source: Niche
Niche Grade Details
Academics
Reading Proficiency
13%
Math Proficiency
6%
Teachers
Student Teacher Ratio
15:1
Teachers
141
Full Time Teachers
141
Teachers in First or Second Year
4.7%
GreatSchools Rating
3
Source: GreatSchools
GreatSchools Rating Details
Teachers and Staff
Students Per Counselor
808:1
Student Diversity
Female
50.1%
Male
49.9%
Hispanic
96.9%
Black
2.4%
White
<1%
Two or more races
<1%
Native American
<1%
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Specialty School Programs
Free/Reduced Lunch Offered
This School’s Reviews
Niche Reviews
12/27/2023
Bullying was extremely frequent and the teachers either did nothing about or actually defended the bullying.
8/9/2020
It wasn't such a good school it is big and holds many students, but there are more teachers that I believe don't care so much about being engaged with the students but when you find the couple teachers that love teaching here it just makes up for the other ones. They also have a stem program with the highschool down the street
12/2/2019
i would like to give this school this rating mostly because it does do good as a overall school but the thing that causes it to be a bad school is all the fights that's going on i know this mostly because i go to this school it does help you on learning just like someone said it helps you learn but not maybe all the things that you maybe have to deal with later in life. overall great school but it seams like the teachers just fool around and don't do their job seriously, and to much fights. i'm trying to be nice giving them a 4 so take it.
GreatSchools Reviews
9/8/2023
SO MUCH BULLYING AND FIGHTS I DONT EVEN KNOW WHERE TO START. DO NOT BRING UR KIDS HERE I AM TELLING UU
5/18/2022
My child got sold in an auction. Here.
5/4/2018
My child is currently attending here, he was placed in a bilingual homeroom for some reason, when he does not speak Spanish. He felt so out of place. My child has told me on multiple occasions that the teacher only speaks Spanish when addressing school issues in class or important events & my child...
4/17/2014
Im a mother and my child attends this school over all they do have couple good teachers, but my child has told me that teachers do go over work they have already done to many times they tell me its a waist of time and prefer to be taught something different than the same thing they were taught 2 or...
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Map
Attendance Zone
About Cicero
List Price Range
$137K - $149K
Homes For Sale
0
Average Home Value
$288,761
Median Lot Size
3,484 Sq Ft
% Renters
51%
Household Income
$73,703
% of College Grads
10.9%
Median Age
34
Average House Size
2,030 Sq Ft
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- Pool
- Playground
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- Amphitheater
- Ice Skating Rink
- Multi-Purpose Field
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- Playground
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Warren Park Building
- Basketball
- Volleyball
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