# Benjamin Franklin Middle School

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `173708003814`
- **School name**: Benjamin Franklin Middle School
- **Location**: Springfield, IL 62704
- **Address**: 1200 Outer Park Dr
- **District**: Springfield SD 186 (LEAID `1737080`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Coordinates**: 39.77325, -89.67153
- **Phone**: (217)787-3006

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 709
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 54
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 13.1:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 53.5%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2025
- **Overall (IL Report Card)**: 50.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 48.6% (371 students) [source: crdc_2020]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.4%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 3.3%
- **Black/African American**: 5.2%
- **Asian**: 40.0%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 37.0%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.3%
- **Two or more races**: 13.8%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 56.3%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 17.9% — 136 students


## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 32 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 26 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 25 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 11 students
- **Autism**: 8 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 6 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 3 students
- **Traumatic Brain Injury**: 1 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $23,831
- **Federal share**: $3,822
- **State + local share**: $20,010
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $24,770,314
- **Federal share**: 18.1%
- **State share**: 35.9%
- **Local share**: 46.0%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $11,816,679

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $92,083
- **Poverty rate**: 6.9%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 65.7%
- **Unemployment**: 2.4%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,091
- **Foreign-born residents**: 6.0%
- **Single-parent households**: 9.4%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 25.6 miles (CENTRAL ILLINOIS PUBLIC SERVICE CO)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 8
- **Nearest brownfield**: 2.16 miles (SPRINGFIELD COMMUNITY GARDEN 1)

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

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 6.99768 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 4.3 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Butler Elem School** — 0.6 mi away, 38.64% (this school: 48.56%)
- **Sandburg Elem School** — 1.2 mi away, 32.87% (this school: 48.56%)
- **Owen Marsh Elem School** — 1.7 mi away, 23.72% (this school: 48.56%)
- **Springfield High School** — 2.0 mi away, 40.67% (this school: 48.56%)
- **Iles Elem School** — 2.1 mi away, 5.41% (this school: 48.56%)

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