# Booth Tarkington Elem School

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `174221004234`
- **School name**: Booth Tarkington Elem School
- **Location**: Wheeling, IL 60090
- **Address**: 310 Scott St
- **District**: Wheeling CCSD 21 (LEAID `1742210`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Coordinates**: 42.13265, -87.95076
- **Phone**: (847)520-2775

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 540
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 38
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 14.2:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 45.4%

## 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 11.4% (54 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**: 42.1%
- **Black/African American**: 23.1%
- **Asian**: 2.9%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 25.6%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 5.9%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 42.7%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 15.0% — 71 students


## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 9 students
- **Developmental Delay**: 4 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 3 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 2 students
- **Autism**: 1 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $20,867
- **Federal share**: $1,079
- **State + local share**: $19,788
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $29,229,081
- **Federal share**: 9.6%
- **State share**: 26.2%
- **Local share**: 64.2%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $13,882,030

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $103,482
- **Poverty rate**: 13.5%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 46.6%
- **Unemployment**: 4.5%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,744
- **Foreign-born residents**: 52.0%
- **Single-parent households**: 12.5%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 14.0 miles (WAUCONDA SAND GRAVEL)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 74
- **Nearest brownfield**: 6.76 miles (DESPLAINES RAND AND PINE ROAD PROPERTY)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: WHEELING
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 6
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 6
- **Most recent violation**: 2019-06-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 7.25566 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 6.7 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Jack London Middle School** — 0.5 mi away, 7.59% (this school: 11.37%)
- **J W Riley Elem School** — 0.9 mi away, 7.97% (this school: 11.37%)
- **Ivy Hill Elem School** — 1.6 mi away, 3.62% (this school: 11.37%)
- **MacArthur Middle School** — 1.6 mi away, 5.18% (this school: 11.37%)
- **Anne Sullivan Elem School** — 1.7 mi away, 9.18% (this school: 11.37%)

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