# Carl Sandburg Elementary

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `172058004928`
- **School name**: Carl Sandburg Elementary
- **Location**: Joliet, IL 60435
- **Address**: 1100 Lilac Ln
- **District**: Joliet PSD 86 (LEAID `1720580`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–5
- **Coordinates**: 41.54258, -88.13552
- **Phone**: (815)725-0281

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 371
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 19
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 19.5:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 95.1%

## 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 25.9% (98 students) [source: crdc_2020]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 29.1%
- **Black/African American**: 2.0%
- **Asian**: 52.2%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 10.9%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 5.9%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 94.8%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 9.2% — 35 students


## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Developmental Delay**: 14 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 9 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 7 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 3 students
- **Autism**: 2 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 2 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 2 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 1 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $17,715
- **Federal share**: $1,835
- **State + local share**: $15,880
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $22,006,989
- **Federal share**: 12.5%
- **State share**: 63.0%
- **Local share**: 24.4%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $9,684,056

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $48,945
- **Poverty rate**: 13.8%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 14.8%
- **Unemployment**: 7.9%
- **Median gross rent**: $995
- **Foreign-born residents**: 19.2%
- **Single-parent households**: 30.0%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 7.2 miles (AMOCO CHEMICALS JOLIET LANDFILL)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 41
- **Nearest brownfield**: 3.16 miles (JOLIET CORRECTIONAL CENTER EAST SIDE)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: JOLIET
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 1
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2024-10-17

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 7.83138 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 1.5 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Hufford Junior High School** — 0.4 mi away, 13.92% (this school: 25.86%)
- **Taft Elementary School** — 1.0 mi away, 17.54% (this school: 25.86%)
- **Thomas Jefferson Elem School** — 1.0 mi away, 17.69% (this school: 25.86%)
- **Pershing Elem School** — 1.5 mi away, 25.65% (this school: 25.86%)
- **Troy Craughwell School** — 1.5 mi away, 10.37% (this school: 25.86%)

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