# Ball Elementary School

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `170492000182`
- **School name**: Ball Elementary School
- **Location**: Chatham, IL 62629
- **Address**: 1015 New City Rd
- **District**: Ball Chatham CUSD 5 (LEAID `1704920`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Coordinates**: 39.67160, -89.62900
- **Phone**: (217)483-2414

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 552
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 30
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 18.4:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 22.8%

## 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 12.7% (77 students) [source: crdc_2020]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.2%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 3.6%
- **Black/African American**: 3.9%
- **Asian**: 6.6%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 78.0%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 7.7%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 24.3%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 17.4% — 106 students


## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 27 students
- **Autism**: 11 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 11 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 9 students
- **Developmental Delay**: 5 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 2 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 2 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $11,391
- **Federal share**: $870
- **State + local share**: $10,522
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $13,880,607
- **Federal share**: 9.0%
- **State share**: 19.7%
- **Local share**: 71.4%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $5,605,297

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $130,489
- **Poverty rate**: 2.2%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 44.2%
- **Unemployment**: 3.6%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,235
- **Foreign-born residents**: 2.1%
- **Single-parent households**: 10.0%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 19.8 miles (CENTRAL ILLINOIS PUBLIC SERVICE CO)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 1
- **Nearest brownfield**: 7.00 miles (ALCOA)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: CHATHAM
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2017-01-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 6.99768 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 11.1 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Pawnee Grade School** — 6.0 mi away, 5.14% (this school: 12.71%)
- **Rochester Elem EC-1 Sch** — 7.0 mi away, 0.72% (this school: 12.71%)
- **Rochester Elem 2-3** — 7.2 mi away, 2.36% (this school: 12.71%)
- **Rochester High School** — 7.3 mi away, 5.74% (this school: 12.71%)
- **Rochester Jr High School** — 7.4 mi away, 1.73% (this school: 12.71%)

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