# Carl Sandburg Elem School

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `170960000566`
- **School name**: Carl Sandburg Elem School
- **Location**: Charleston, IL 61920
- **Address**: 1924 Reynolds Dr
- **District**: Charleston CUSD 1 (LEAID `1709600`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–3
- **Coordinates**: 39.47820, -88.19200
- **Phone**: (217)639-4000

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 555
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 39
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 14.2:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 54.6%

## 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 22.5% (118 students) [source: crdc_2020]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 5
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.2%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 5.8%
- **Black/African American**: 1.3%
- **Asian**: 6.3%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 79.4%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 6.9%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 57.9%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 14.2% — 75 students


## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Developmental Delay**: 39 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 26 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 9 students
- **Autism**: 8 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 7 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 4 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 3 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 1 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $13,984
- **Federal share**: $1,025
- **State + local share**: $12,959
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $16,520,045
- **Federal share**: 14.0%
- **State share**: 39.1%
- **Local share**: 46.9%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $6,027,097

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $95,313
- **Poverty rate**: 9.4%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 45.4%
- **Unemployment**: 6.4%
- **Median gross rent**: $860
- **Foreign-born residents**: 6.5%
- **Single-parent households**: 8.2%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 26.7 miles (VELSICOL CHEMICAL CORP MARSHALL PLANT)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 6
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.31 miles (LINCOLN SCHOOL)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: CHARLESTON
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 5
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2025-09-01

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Mark Twain Elem School** — 1.4 mi away, 18.59% (this school: 22.48%)
- **Charleston Middle School** — 1.6 mi away, 14.94% (this school: 22.48%)
- **Jefferson Elem School** — 1.6 mi away, 19.94% (this school: 22.48%)
- **Ashmore Elem School** — 9.8 mi away, 19.1% (this school: 22.48%)
- **Kansas Elem School** — 14.3 mi away, 17.27% (this school: 22.48%)

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