# Catalyst Charter - Maria ES

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `170993006243`
- **School name**: Catalyst Charter - Maria ES
- **Location**: Chicago, IL 60629
- **Address**: 6727 S California Ave
- **District**: Chicago Public Schools Dist 299 (LEAID `1709930`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Other
- **Grade range**: 0–12
- **Charter school**: Yes
- **Coordinates**: 41.77092, -87.69250
- **Phone**: (773)993-1770

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 1,107
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 78
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 14.2:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 96.5%

## 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

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 85.6% (cohort of 125)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 237

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 16.1% (177 students) [source: crdc_2020]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 56.6%
- **Black/African American**: 0.0%
- **Asian**: 41.9%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 1.2%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 0.4%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 96.6%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 15.6% — 172 students


## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 94 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 12 students
- **Developmental Delay**: 11 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 11 students
- **Autism**: 9 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 5 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 2 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 2 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 2 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $20,210
- **Federal share**: $2,097
- **State + local share**: $18,113
### 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**: $45,572
- **Poverty rate**: 33.5%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 6.4%
- **Unemployment**: 15.8%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,165
- **Foreign-born residents**: 18.9%
- **Single-parent households**: 16.9%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 8.8 miles (ACME STEEL COKE PLANT)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 184
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.88 miles (GREEN DEMOLITION SPECIFICATIONS)

### 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**: 7.10667 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 1.7 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Hurley Elem School** — 1.4 mi away, 15.15% (this school: 16.12%)
- **Carson Elem School** — 1.6 mi away, 10.93% (this school: 16.12%)
- **Horizon Sci Acad - Southwest Chtr** — 1.8 mi away, 14.97% (this school: 16.12%)
- **Peck Elem School** — 1.8 mi away, 12.54% (this school: 16.12%)
- **Lee Elem School** — 1.9 mi away, 15.96% (this school: 16.12%)

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