# Benjamin Middle School

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `170588000264`
- **School name**: Benjamin Middle School
- **Location**: West Chicago, IL 60185
- **Address**: 28W300 Saint Charles Rd
- **District**: Benjamin SD 25 (LEAID `1705880`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 5–8
- **Coordinates**: 41.91316, -88.17221
- **Phone**: (630)876-7820

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 259
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 27
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 9.6:1

## 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 7.3% (21 students) [source: crdc_2020]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 18.8%
- **Black/African American**: 10.8%
- **Asian**: 1.4%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 65.6%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 3.5%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 12.2% — 35 students


## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 17 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 13 students
- **Autism**: 4 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 3 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 3 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $22,062
- **Federal share**: $793
- **State + local share**: $21,268
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $27,514,516
- **Federal share**: 3.4%
- **State share**: 21.6%
- **Local share**: 75.0%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $12,733,871

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $146,033
- **Poverty rate**: 2.7%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 47.5%
- **Unemployment**: 3.7%
- **Foreign-born residents**: 13.5%
- **Single-parent households**: 0.0%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 3.0 miles (KERR MCGEE RESIDENTIAL AREAS)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 70
- **Nearest brownfield**: 6.27 miles (MUSSELMAN LUMBER CO FORMER)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: WEST CHICAGO
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 8.41763 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 9.4 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Evergreen Elementary School** — 0.9 mi away, 3.79% (this school: 7.29%)
- **Jay Stream Middle School** — 2.3 mi away, 5.36% (this school: 7.29%)
- **Hawk Hollow Elem School** — 2.3 mi away, 2.59% (this school: 7.29%)
- **Sycamore Trails Elementary School** — 4.0 mi away, 6.05% (this school: 7.29%)
- **Stratford Middle School** — 4.0 mi away, 6.46% (this school: 7.29%)

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