# Bi-County-3-5 LIfe Skills-Merrill

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `170022706684`
- **School name**: Bi-County-3-5 LIfe Skills-Merrill
- **Location**: Sterling, IL 61081
- **Address**: 815 W Le Fevre Rd
- **District**: Bi-County Special Educ Coop (LEAID `1700227`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Special education
- **Coordinates**: 41.80122, -89.70745
- **Phone**: (815)625-2372

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: N/A
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 2

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence N/A (1 students) [source: crdc_2020]

## Demographics (2020)

## Finance
### District F-33 (2022)
- **Federal share**: 8.0%
- **State share**: 25.2%
- **Local share**: 66.7%

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $44,094
- **Poverty rate**: 20.6%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 14.6%
- **Unemployment**: 4.6%
- **Median gross rent**: $585
- **Foreign-born residents**: 1.2%
- **Single-parent households**: 36.6%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 28.7 miles (BYRON SALVAGE YARD)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 2
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 20
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.00 miles (LUMBER OFF LOADING FACILITY)

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

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.il.whatschool.ai/en/il/school/bi-county-3-5-life-skills-merrill-sterling
- **Performance**: https://us.il.whatschool.ai/en/il/school/bi-county-3-5-life-skills-merrill-sterling/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.il.whatschool.ai/en/il/school/bi-county-3-5-life-skills-merrill-sterling/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.il.whatschool.ai/en/il/school/bi-county-3-5-life-skills-merrill-sterling/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.il.whatschool.ai/en/il/school/bi-county-3-5-life-skills-merrill-sterling/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.il.whatschool.ai/en/il/school/bi-county-3-5-life-skills-merrill-sterling/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.il.whatschool.ai/en/il/school/bi-county-3-5-life-skills-merrill-sterling/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.il.whatschool.ai/en/il/school/bi-county-3-5-life-skills-merrill-sterling/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.il.whatschool.ai/en/il/school/bi-county-3-5-life-skills-merrill-sterling/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.il.whatschool.ai/en/il/school/bi-county-3-5-life-skills-merrill-sterling/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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