# Aplington Middle School

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `173210003361`
- **School name**: Aplington Middle School
- **Location**: Polo, IL 61064
- **Address**: 610 E Mason St
- **District**: Polo CUSD 222 (LEAID `1732100`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Coordinates**: 41.98640, -89.56960
- **Phone**: (815)946-2519

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 114
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 8
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 14.2:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 48.2%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: IL Report Card
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Commendable
- **Indicators**:
  - overall: Commendable

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2025
- **Overall (IL Report Card)**: 68.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 7.4% (10 students) [source: crdc_2020]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 1
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.7%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 8.1%
- **Black/African American**: 0.0%
- **Asian**: 0.0%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 85.9%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 5.2%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 52.4%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 9.6% — 13 students


## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 11 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 5 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 1 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $12,767
- **Federal share**: $1,002
- **State + local share**: $11,765
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $18,902,778
- **Federal share**: 12.4%
- **State share**: 34.7%
- **Local share**: 52.9%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $9,197,917

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $65,871
- **Poverty rate**: 14.2%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 19.9%
- **Unemployment**: 5.5%
- **Median gross rent**: $793
- **Foreign-born residents**: 1.7%
- **Single-parent households**: 20.3%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 15.5 miles (BYRON SALVAGE YARD)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 1
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 1
- **Nearest brownfield**: 10.39 miles (DIXON ARMORY)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: POLO
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2023-04-01

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Centennial Elem School** — 0.3 mi away, 6.5% (this school: 7.41%)
- **Oregon Elem Sch** — 11.8 mi away, 7.25% (this school: 7.41%)
- **Jefferson Elem School** — 14.1 mi away, 6.63% (this school: 7.41%)
- **Lincoln Elem School** — 14.2 mi away, 6.32% (this school: 7.41%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.il.whatschool.ai/en/il/school/aplington-middle-school-polo
- **Performance**: https://us.il.whatschool.ai/en/il/school/aplington-middle-school-polo/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.il.whatschool.ai/en/il/school/aplington-middle-school-polo/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.il.whatschool.ai/en/il/school/aplington-middle-school-polo/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.il.whatschool.ai/en/il/school/aplington-middle-school-polo/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.il.whatschool.ai/en/il/school/aplington-middle-school-polo/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.il.whatschool.ai/en/il/school/aplington-middle-school-polo/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.il.whatschool.ai/en/il/school/aplington-middle-school-polo/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.il.whatschool.ai/en/il/school/aplington-middle-school-polo/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.il.whatschool.ai/en/il/school/aplington-middle-school-polo/workforce

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*Source: US Dept of Education CCD, EDFacts, CRDC, F-33; US Census ACS; EPA SDWIS, TRI, NPL, AQS; state DOE portals (CA CDE, TX TEA, FL DOE, NY NYSED, IL ISBE, WA OSPI). Aggregated by WhatSchool.ai.*

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