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Aptakisic Junior High School

Buffalo Grove, IL 60089

Phone: (847) 353-5506
District: Aptakisic-Tripp Central Consolidated School District 102

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public • Grades 6,7,8 • 931 students

Aptakisic Junior High School, a public school located in Buffalo Grove, IL, serves grades 6-8 in the Aptakisic-Tripp Central Consolidated School District 102.It has received a GreatSchools Rating of 8 out of 10, based on a variety of school quality measures.

Aptakisic Junior High School is a public school located in Buffalo Grove, IL. 931 students attend Aptakisic Junior High School.

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Category	Rating	Details
Test Scores	9/10	The Test Score Rating examines how students at this school performed on standardized tests compared with other schools in the state. The Test Rating was created using 2025 Illinois Assessment of Readiness data from Illinois State Board of Education, and using 2025 Illinois Science Assessment data from Illinois State Board of Education.
Student Growth	6/10	The Student Progress Rating measures whether students at this school are making academic progress over time based on student growth data provided by the Department of Education. Specifically, this rating looks at how much progress individual students have made on state assessments during the past year or more, how this performance aligns with expected progress based on a student growth model established by the state Department of Education, and how this school's growth data compares to other schools in the state. The Growth Rating was created using 2025 Student growth data from Illinois State Board of Education.

Posted: January 29, 2025

6-7th grade is pretty chill, not much homework at all and every student is just playing games because they have laid-back interactive teachers and an engaging curriculum so they are not overloaded with anything and can find a free school-life balance. 8th grade is where you crash out. Especially if you have an advanced track child on Pre-calc at Stevenson or Geometry. There are some teachers who are especially strict or condescending towards students (there is one specific teacher I doubt even likes children in general) and there WILL be loads of homework. They tell you its to prepare for high school, which is true in a sense, but they did not prepare me for 8th grade. However, I do appreciate the competitiveness and well rounded curriculum which drives students to work harder and at an above state average level for an easier path to success at Stevenson. Hope this school reconsiders some of the Science teachers Thanks, coming from a past alumni

Posted: January 29, 2025

Posted: July 2, 2024

Excellent feeder school to Adlai Stevenson. Students compete and place at state level athletics, students can compete in math consortium, and staff is recognized by the Board. I feel good about belonging to this school.

Posted: July 2, 2024

Posted: April 4, 2024

Great school with very knowledgeable and enthusiastic teachers with lot of after school clubs. We love this school.

Posted: April 4, 2024

Posted: December 28, 2023

This school has very high test scores, that is what matters.

Posted: December 13, 2023

Its ok but can use some more improvement.

Posted: September 14, 2022

8th Grade gets lot of homework which keeps them busy.

Posted: September 14, 2022

Posted: April 2, 2022

Wow the school is extremely good idk who would say otherwise

Posted: April 2, 2022

Posted: February 27, 2022

Best feeder school for Stevenson. Academically great school. Science fair, sports, music club are the best.
Teachers are great and very patient.

Posted: February 22, 2022

This school is worst of the feeder schools for Adlai Stevenson High School.
1. Worst teacher to student ratio (834 kids)
2. Unqualified and inexperienced teachers
3. Ineffective management
4. Bad sanitary conditions in rest rooms

I am not sure how the tax payer money is being spent towards betterment of conditions to help provide quality education.

Posted: February 22, 2022

Posted: August 31, 2021

This school is not good. The teachers are horrible and dont even explain what to do or how to do it, they just expect us to do it. Also, the students there are very rude. They spend the nearly every class on the iPad which distracts from learning useful information. They be playing games all day instead of learn. The teachers dont do anything about it, I heard from a friend that they accused a guy for playing games but he was studying??? Teachers are useless, dont go here.

Posted: May 24, 2021

This is a great school. My kid was going this school and we never had any issues.

Posted: May 24, 2021

Posted: August 22, 2019

This school is not serving me well, it has lackluster and ignorant staff, bad student to teacher communication, beat up lockers that you can open without even putting the combination in. And if you are a new student no one ever helps you, and no one is willing to talk to you.

Posted: August 22, 2019

They are ok, they don't help you much.

Posted: August 22, 2019

No one ever speaks up, no one wants to take charge

Posted: August 22, 2019

Posted: April 10, 2015

This school is average school with above average resources. Some of the teachers show racial favoritism. If parents and kids voice opinion they will be met with consequences. Our kid who is bright became unhappy.

Posted: February 2, 2015

Visiting this school during a girls' volleyball game and their rude and disrespectful behavior (not only to the other team but to the parents of the other team) was shocking and I caught it all on tape. Mostly disappointed in how the coach encouraged it. Lack of good sportsmanship said a lot about their lack of integrity. What good is a school that manufactures good tests scores but not good people. I am glad my kids do not attend this school and I would not want them influenced by this environment.

Posted: April 20, 2014

Great school, like the teachers and the principal. School process is very organized, good communication with the parents. Never had any issues as a parent. I do agree though with the other parent regarding iPads - they are not helpful, they take away focus from learning, too much time spent on iTunes and games.

Posted: April 2, 2014

My school is Aptakisic Junior High School and they help students learn and have fun. We have our own iPads to help us. These are very useful and it is easy to communicate and get work to teachers.

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