# Cardenas Elem School

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `170993001099`
- **School name**: Cardenas Elem School
- **Location**: Chicago, IL 60623
- **Address**: 2345 S Millard Ave
- **District**: Chicago Public Schools Dist 299 (LEAID `1709930`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Coordinates**: 41.84820, -87.71570
- **Phone**: (773)534-1465

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 764
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 56
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 13.6:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 95.8%

## 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 21.5% (218 students) [source: crdc_2020]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.1%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 94.8%
- **Black/African American**: 0.0%
- **Asian**: 4.3%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 0.7%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 0.1%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 94.9%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 16.9% — 171 students


## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 30 students
- **Autism**: 9 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 7 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 4 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 4 students
- **Developmental Delay**: 3 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 3 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 1 students
- **Traumatic Brain Injury**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $19,667
- **Federal share**: $2,987
- **State + local share**: $16,680
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $25,576,784
- **Federal share**: 17.4%
- **State share**: 29.9%
- **Local share**: 52.8%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $13,747,371

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $51,092
- **Poverty rate**: 18.8%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 6.0%
- **Unemployment**: 9.1%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,140
- **Foreign-born residents**: 27.7%
- **Single-parent households**: 38.0%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 13.6 miles (ACME STEEL COKE PLANT)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 7
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 291
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.38 miles (3701 W OGDAN)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: CHICAGO
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2025-07-02

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 7.46167 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 2.0 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Little Village Elem School** — 0.4 mi away, 17.18% (this school: 21.54%)
- **McCormick Elem School** — 0.6 mi away, 21.02% (this school: 21.54%)
- **Gary Elem School** — 0.7 mi away, 13.94% (this school: 21.54%)
- **Legacy Elem Charter School** — 0.7 mi away, 20.88% (this school: 21.54%)
- **Spry Elem Community School** — 0.8 mi away, 19.3% (this school: 21.54%)

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