# Clara Peterson Elem School

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `170765005480`
- **School name**: Clara Peterson Elem School
- **Location**: Paxton, IL 60957
- **Address**: 580 E Franklin St
- **District**: Paxton-Buckley-Loda CUD 10 (LEAID `1707650`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Coordinates**: 40.45384, -88.09084
- **Phone**: (217)379-2531

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 564
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 44
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 12.8:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 39.9%

## 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 7.9% (46 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**: 8.8%
- **Black/African American**: 0.4%
- **Asian**: 1.0%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 82.6%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.6%
- **Two or more races**: 6.5%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 40.2%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 19.8% — 116 students


## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Developmental Delay**: 17 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 16 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 8 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 6 students
- **Autism**: 3 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $11,103
- **Federal share**: $1,772
- **State + local share**: $9,331
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $19,046,656
- **Federal share**: 10.6%
- **State share**: 36.9%
- **Local share**: 52.5%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $9,076,983

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $60,013
- **Poverty rate**: 9.4%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 21.9%
- **Unemployment**: 1.7%
- **Median gross rent**: $925
- **Foreign-born residents**: 0.4%
- **Single-parent households**: 13.9%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 34.9 miles (HEGELER ZINC)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 2
- **Nearest brownfield**: 21.22 miles (DIXIE BUSINESS PLAZA INC)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: PAXTON
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2023-07-01

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Cissna Park Elementary School** — 13.2 mi away, 4.03% (this school: 7.86%)
- **Cissna Park Jr High School** — 13.2 mi away, 3.45% (this school: 7.86%)
- **GCMS Elementary School** — 14.9 mi away, 7.38% (this school: 7.86%)
- **Prairieview-Ogden Jr High Sch** — 14.9 mi away, 2.08% (this school: 7.86%)

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