# Bernard J Ward Elem School

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `174007005751`
- **School name**: Bernard J Ward Elem School
- **Location**: Bolingbrook, IL 60440
- **Address**: 200 Recreation Dr
- **District**: Valley View CUSD 365U (LEAID `1740070`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–5
- **Coordinates**: 41.69411, -88.05704
- **Phone**: (630)972-9200

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 363
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 30
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 12.1:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 77.4%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2025
- **Overall (IL Report Card)**: 82.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 23.6% (89 students) [source: crdc_2020]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.6%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 68.7%
- **Black/African American**: 4.2%
- **Asian**: 17.3%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 5.6%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 3.6%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 77.9%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 15.9% — 60 students


## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 25 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 17 students
- **Developmental Delay**: 10 students
- **Autism**: 5 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 4 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 4 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 2 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $23,838
- **Federal share**: $2,429
- **State + local share**: $21,409
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $27,069,172
- **Federal share**: 8.0%
- **State share**: 31.8%
- **Local share**: 60.3%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $11,869,093

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $87,695
- **Poverty rate**: 11.8%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 16.9%
- **Unemployment**: 3.8%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,318
- **Foreign-born residents**: 30.0%
- **Single-parent households**: 14.2%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 6.0 miles (LENZ OIL SERVICE INC)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 3
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 39
- **Nearest brownfield**: 3.08 miles (ROMEOVILLE)

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

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 8.1749 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 7.2 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Jonas E Salk Elem School** — 1.3 mi away, 17.78% (this school: 23.61%)
- **Hubert H Humphrey Middle School** — 1.4 mi away, 20.17% (this school: 23.61%)
- **Oak View Elem School** — 1.6 mi away, 23.13% (this school: 23.61%)
- **Wood View Elem School** — 1.7 mi away, 16.71% (this school: 23.61%)
- **Independence Elem School** — 2.1 mi away, 22.9% (this school: 23.61%)

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