# Beard Elem School

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Full profile (human-readable): https://us.il.whatschool.ai/en/il/school/beard-elem-school-chicago

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `170993004965`
- **School name**: Beard Elem School
- **Location**: Chicago, IL 60656
- **Address**: 6445 W Strong St
- **District**: Chicago Public Schools Dist 299 (LEAID `1709930`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Coordinates**: 41.96990, -87.79040
- **Phone**: (773)534-1228

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 327
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 41
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 8.0:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 36.1%

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 38.5% (32 students) [source: crdc_2020]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.5%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 38.3%
- **Black/African American**: 19.2%
- **Asian**: 3.6%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 34.7%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.5%
- **Two or more races**: 3.1%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 38.6%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 58.0% — 48 students


## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $37,934
- **Federal share**: $5,487
- **State + local share**: $32,447
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $25,576,784
- **Federal share**: 17.4%
- **State share**: 29.9%
- **Local share**: 52.8%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $13,747,371

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $131,932
- **Poverty rate**: 6.6%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 39.6%
- **Unemployment**: 9.9%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,074
- **Foreign-born residents**: 23.6%
- **Single-parent households**: 3.8%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 19.8 miles (LENZ OIL SERVICE INC)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 6
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 184
- **Nearest brownfield**: 2.25 miles (4759 N LAWRENCE)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: CHICAGO
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2025-07-02

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 7.2087 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 2.1 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Garvy  J Elem School** — 0.5 mi away, 6.75% (this school: 38.55%)
- **Union Ridge Elem School** — 0.5 mi away, 3.13% (this school: 38.55%)
- **Smyser Elem School** — 0.8 mi away, 14.27% (this school: 38.55%)
- **Prussing Elem School** — 0.9 mi away, 10.64% (this school: 38.55%)
- **Hitch Elem School** — 1.1 mi away, 7.52% (this school: 38.55%)

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