# Columbia Central School

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `173768003880`
- **School name**: Columbia Central School
- **Location**: Steger, IL 60475
- **Address**: 94 Richton Rd
- **District**: Steger SD 194 (LEAID `1737680`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 5–8
- **Coordinates**: 41.45979, -87.63875
- **Phone**: (708)753-4700

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 646
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 39
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 16.6:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 56.3%

## 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 16.2% (103 students) [source: crdc_2020]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 6
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 37.2%
- **Black/African American**: 0.3%
- **Asian**: 26.7%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 25.0%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.3%
- **Two or more races**: 10.5%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 80.7%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 14.8% — 94 students


## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 28 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 16 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 6 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 6 students
- **Autism**: 4 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 4 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 1 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $17,854
- **Federal share**: $2,533
- **State + local share**: $15,321
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $19,522,727
- **Federal share**: 12.2%
- **State share**: 49.8%
- **Local share**: 38.0%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $8,566,804

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $67,031
- **Poverty rate**: 11.3%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 17.1%
- **Unemployment**: 6.4%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,661
- **Foreign-born residents**: 6.0%
- **Single-parent households**: 12.0%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 12.0 miles (AMERICAN CHEMICAL SERVICE INC)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 34
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.20 miles (SITE 1 TORRENCE I)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: STEGER
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 4
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 4
- **Most recent violation**: 2025-07-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 7.81133 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 9.2 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Crete-Monee Early Childhood Cntr** — 1.4 mi away, 0.68% (this school: 16.17%)
- **Coretta Scott King Magnet Sch** — 2.7 mi away, 10.18% (this school: 16.17%)
- **Michelle Obama Sch of Technology** — 3.5 mi away, 14.81% (this school: 16.17%)
- **O W Huth Middle School** — 4.6 mi away, 11.8% (this school: 16.17%)
- **Rickover Jr High School** — 4.6 mi away, 0.23% (this school: 16.17%)

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