# C M Bardwell Elem School

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `170468000146`
- **School name**: C M Bardwell Elem School
- **Location**: Aurora, IL 60505
- **Address**: 550 S Lincoln Ave
- **District**: Aurora East USD 131 (LEAID `1704680`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Coordinates**: 41.74543, -88.31955
- **Phone**: (630)299-5300

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 679
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 40
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 17.0:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 67.2%

## 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 21.1% (154 students) [source: crdc_2020]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.1%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 92.7%
- **Black/African American**: 0.1%
- **Asian**: 3.6%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 1.6%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.1%
- **Two or more races**: 1.6%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 75.1%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 10.2% — 74 students


## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 33 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 17 students
- **Developmental Delay**: 16 students
- **Autism**: 6 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 5 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 2 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 2 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 2 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 1 students
- **Traumatic Brain Injury**: 1 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $17,840
- **Federal share**: $3,326
- **State + local share**: $14,514
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $21,147,743
- **Federal share**: 19.7%
- **State share**: 60.2%
- **Local share**: 20.0%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $8,113,153

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $58,642
- **Poverty rate**: 25.9%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 10.8%
- **Unemployment**: 11.3%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,227
- **Foreign-born residents**: 31.2%
- **Single-parent households**: 18.2%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 9.9 miles (KERR MCGEE KRESS CREEK WEST BRANCH OF DUPAGE RIVER)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 5
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 51
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.62 miles (KIDDIE CAR)

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

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 7.21014 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 2.8 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Rose E Krug Elem School** — 0.9 mi away, 20.92% (this school: 21.1%)
- **G N Dieterich Elem School** — 0.9 mi away, 15.25% (this school: 21.1%)
- **John Gates Elem School** — 1.0 mi away, 20.09% (this school: 21.1%)
- **Fred Rodgers Magnet Acad** — 1.2 mi away, 13.7% (this school: 21.1%)
- **East High School** — 1.2 mi away, 19.75% (this school: 21.1%)

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