# Chiddix Jr High School

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `172862002996`
- **School name**: Chiddix Jr High School
- **Location**: Normal, IL 61761
- **Address**: 300 S Walnut St
- **District**: McLean County USD 5 (LEAID `1728620`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Coordinates**: 40.50815, -88.97928
- **Phone**: (309)557-4405

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 597
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 46
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 13.0:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 30.8%

## 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 15.2% (98 students) [source: crdc_2020]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 10
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 5.1%
- **Black/African American**: 14.0%
- **Asian**: 13.7%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 60.6%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 6.6%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 32.0%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 18.9% — 122 students


## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 28 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 18 students
- **Autism**: 16 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 8 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 7 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 1 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $13,473
- **Federal share**: $470
- **State + local share**: $13,003
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $17,536,647
- **Federal share**: 7.4%
- **State share**: 29.2%
- **Local share**: 63.3%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $9,100,135

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $30,862
- **Poverty rate**: 37.5%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 43.6%
- **Unemployment**: 2.1%
- **Median gross rent**: $924
- **Foreign-born residents**: 5.6%
- **Single-parent households**: 30.1%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 57.9 miles (MATTHIESSEN AND HEGELER ZINC COMPANY)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 12
- **Nearest brownfield**: 34.67 miles (FORMER METHODIST FAMILY CHILD CARE CENTER PARCEL 6)

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

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 6.61974 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 1.2 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Colene Hoose Elem School** — 0.5 mi away, 14.25% (this school: 15.17%)
- **Thomas Metcalf School** — 0.8 mi away, 1.54% (this school: 15.17%)
- **Kingsley Jr High School** — 0.9 mi away, 10.45% (this school: 15.17%)
- **University High School** — 1.0 mi away, 3.13% (this school: 15.17%)
- **Prairieland Elementary School** — 1.8 mi away, 6.1% (this school: 15.17%)

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