# Chester High School

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

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `170981000579`
- **School name**: Chester High School
- **Location**: Chester, IL 62233
- **Address**: 1901 Swanwick St
- **District**: Chester CUSD 139 (LEAID `1709810`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 37.91996, -89.81293
- **Phone**: (618)826-2302
- **Wikidata QID**: Q5093597 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chester_High_School_(Chester,_Illinois)

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 335
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 21
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 16.0:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 39.4%

## 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**: 92.0% (cohort of 88)

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 12.1% (44 students) [source: crdc_2020]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 52
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 5.6%
- **Black/African American**: 0.0%
- **Asian**: 0.9%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 89.7%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 3.8%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 39.9%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 13.5% — 49 students


## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 25 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 8 students
- **Autism**: 4 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 4 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 1 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 1 students
- **Traumatic Brain Injury**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $13,709
- **Federal share**: $0
- **State + local share**: $13,709
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $16,781,876
- **Federal share**: 12.1%
- **State share**: 54.3%
- **Local share**: 33.6%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $8,335,090

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $74,241
- **Poverty rate**: 18.4%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 12.7%
- **Unemployment**: 2.0%
- **Median gross rent**: $597
- **Foreign-born residents**: 2.4%
- **Single-parent households**: 18.3%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 36.2 miles (MADISON COUNTY MINES)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 1
- **Nearest brownfield**: 13.74 miles (CO OP SERVICE CENTER)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: CHESTER
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 6.37849 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 17.8 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Steeleville Elem School** — 10.1 mi away, 11.33% (this school: 12.12%)
- **STE. GENEVIEVE MIDDLE** — 13.7 mi away, 4.32% (this school: 12.12%)
- **STE. GENEVIEVE ELEM.** — 13.8 mi away, 6.01% (this school: 12.12%)
- **PERRYVILLE SR. HIGH** — 14.1 mi away, 8.95% (this school: 12.12%)
- **PERRY CO. MIDDLE** — 14.2 mi away, 1% (this school: 12.12%)

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