# Bement Elementary School

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `170582004540`
- **School name**: Bement Elementary School
- **Location**: Bement, IL 61813
- **Address**: 201 S Champaign St
- **District**: Bement CUSD 5 (LEAID `1705820`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Coordinates**: 39.92160, -88.56900
- **Phone**: (217)678-4200

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 143
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 12
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 11.9:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 65.7%

## 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 20.5% (26 students) [source: crdc_2020]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 2
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 0.8%
- **Black/African American**: 0.8%
- **Asian**: 1.6%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 94.3%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 2.4%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 56.2%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 14.6% — 19 students


## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 15 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 6 students
- **Developmental Delay**: 3 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 3 students
- **Autism**: 1 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $15,325
- **Federal share**: $846
- **State + local share**: $14,479
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $21,429,066
- **Federal share**: 9.2%
- **State share**: 26.0%
- **Local share**: 64.8%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $8,937,716

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $72,667
- **Poverty rate**: 5.3%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 18.5%
- **Unemployment**: 4.5%
- **Median gross rent**: $700
- **Foreign-born residents**: 0.9%
- **Single-parent households**: 10.0%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 46.8 miles (CENTRAL ILLINOIS PUBLIC SERVICE CO)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 0
- **Nearest brownfield**: 7.19 miles (PEPSIN MANUFACTURING FORMER)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: BEMENT
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 4
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2025-07-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 6.28143 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 13.8 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Bement Middle School** — 0.0 mi away, 15.63% (this school: 20.47%)
- **Washington School** — 6.8 mi away, 8.19% (this school: 20.47%)
- **Monticello Middle School** — 7.1 mi away, 11.02% (this school: 20.47%)
- **Cerro Gordo Jr and Sr High Sch** — 8.7 mi away, 16.91% (this school: 20.47%)
- **Cerro Gordo Elem School** — 8.8 mi away, 2.77% (this school: 20.47%)

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