# Cooper Middle School

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `174221004230`
- **School name**: Cooper Middle School
- **Location**: Buffalo Grove, IL 60089
- **Address**: 1050 Plum Grove Cir
- **District**: Wheeling CCSD 21 (LEAID `1742210`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Coordinates**: 42.14981, -87.98314
- **Phone**: (847)520-2750

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 732
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 56
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 13.1:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 56.0%

## 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 6.9% (48 students) [source: crdc_2020]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 2
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.4%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 28.5%
- **Black/African American**: 10.9%
- **Asian**: 1.8%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 55.5%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 2.8%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 50.0%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 9.1% — 64 students


## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 29 students
- **Autism**: 13 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 13 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 5 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 1 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $19,633
- **Federal share**: $1,034
- **State + local share**: $18,599
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $29,229,081
- **Federal share**: 9.6%
- **State share**: 26.2%
- **Local share**: 64.2%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $13,882,030

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $120,417
- **Poverty rate**: 2.0%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 58.0%
- **Unemployment**: 3.1%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,364
- **Foreign-born residents**: 14.4%
- **Single-parent households**: 8.3%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 12.0 miles (WAUCONDA SAND GRAVEL)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 65
- **Nearest brownfield**: 7.49 miles (BARRINGTON PARK DISTRICT)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: BUFFALO GROVE
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2024-10-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 7.25566 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 8.7 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Ivy Hall Elementary School** — 1.2 mi away, 2.84% (this school: 6.86%)
- **Willow Grove Early Learning Ctr** — 1.3 mi away, 2.92% (this school: 6.86%)
- **Earl Pritchett School** — 1.9 mi away, 2.8% (this school: 6.86%)
- **Tripp School** — 1.9 mi away, 1.03% (this school: 6.86%)
- **Prairie Elementary School** — 2.1 mi away, 1.02% (this school: 6.86%)

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