# Charleston High School

*Machine-readable school profile — served at https://us.il.whatschool.ai/en/il/school/charleston-high-school-charleston/llm*

Full profile (human-readable): https://us.il.whatschool.ai/en/il/school/charleston-high-school-charleston

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `170960000567`
- **School name**: Charleston High School
- **Location**: Charleston, IL 61920
- **Address**: 1615 Lincoln Ave
- **District**: Charleston CUSD 1 (LEAID `1709600`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 39.48521, -88.16451
- **Phone**: (217)639-5000
- **Wikidata QID**: Q5084146 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charleston_High_School_(Illinois)

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 795
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 48
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 16.6:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 44.9%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: IL Report Card
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Targeted
- **Indicators**:
  - overall: Targeted

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2025
- **Overall (IL Report Card)**: 50.0% proficient

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 80.2% (cohort of 192)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 359

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 30.1% (241 students) [source: crdc_2020]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 12
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.3%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 4.1%
- **Black/African American**: 2.0%
- **Asian**: 5.0%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 85.0%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 3.7%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 49.6%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 16.2% — 130 students


## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 70 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 32 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 29 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 14 students
- **Autism**: 6 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 1 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $17,686
- **Federal share**: $3,710
- **State + local share**: $13,976
### 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**: $83,214
- **Poverty rate**: 8.8%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 50.0%
- **Unemployment**: 0.1%
- **Median gross rent**: $781
- **Foreign-born residents**: 1.1%
- **Single-parent households**: 10.4%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 25.4 miles (VELSICOL CHEMICAL CORP MARSHALL PLANT)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 6
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.16 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** — 0.2 mi away, 18.59% (this school: 30.09%)
- **Charleston Middle School** — 0.2 mi away, 14.94% (this school: 30.09%)
- **Jefferson Elem School** — 1.0 mi away, 19.94% (this school: 30.09%)
- **Carl Sandburg Elem School** — 1.5 mi away, 22.48% (this school: 30.09%)
- **Ashmore Elem School** — 8.3 mi away, 19.1% (this school: 30.09%)

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