# Columbia High School

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

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

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `171074001295`
- **School name**: Columbia High School
- **Location**: Columbia, IL 62236
- **Address**: 77 Veterans Pkwy
- **District**: Columbia CUSD 4 (LEAID `1710740`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 38.44687, -90.21604
- **Phone**: (618)281-5001
- **Wikidata QID**: Q5149714 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_High_School_(Illinois)

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 606
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 37
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 16.4:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 15.2%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2025
- **Overall (IL Report Card)**: 82.0% proficient

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 95.9% (cohort of 146)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 113

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 8.2% (51 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**: 3.3%
- **Black/African American**: 1.1%
- **Asian**: 0.3%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 91.7%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.3%
- **Two or more races**: 3.3%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 13.1%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 8.8% — 55 students


## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Other Health Impairment**: 20 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 15 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 5 students
- **Autism**: 4 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 3 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 2 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 2 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $12,101
- **Federal share**: $364
- **State + local share**: $11,737
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $16,053,218
- **Federal share**: 6.3%
- **State share**: 29.9%
- **Local share**: 63.8%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $7,374,050

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $64,491
- **Poverty rate**: 18.1%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 27.2%
- **Unemployment**: 1.4%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,095
- **Foreign-born residents**: 1.4%
- **Single-parent households**: 28.4%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 9.9 miles (SAUGET AREA 1)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 2
- **Nearest brownfield**: 4.22 miles (17 ACRES UNDEVELOPED LAND)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: COLUMBIA
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2025-07-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 6.66007 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 7.1 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Columbia Middle School** — 0.2 mi away, 6.04% (this school: 8.2%)
- **Parkview Elementary School** — 0.3 mi away, 1.82% (this school: 8.2%)
- **Eagleview Elementary School** — 0.9 mi away, 1.66% (this school: 8.2%)
- **MARGARET BUERKLE MIDDLE** — 6.3 mi away, 0.31% (this school: 8.2%)
- **Millstadt Consolidated School** — 6.7 mi away, 7.01% (this school: 8.2%)

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