# Cortland Elementary School

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

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

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `171200000468`
- **School name**: Cortland Elementary School
- **Location**: Cortland, IL 60112
- **Address**: 370 E Lexington Ave
- **District**: DeKalb CUSD 428 (LEAID `1712000`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–5
- **Coordinates**: 41.90682, -88.67616
- **Phone**: (815)754-2360

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 523
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 39
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 13.4:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 62.1%

## 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 8.5% (44 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**: 40.7%
- **Black/African American**: 0.6%
- **Asian**: 10.9%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 40.7%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 7.1%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 63.4%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 14.2% — 74 students


## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 25 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 13 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 8 students
- **Autism**: 7 students
- **Developmental Delay**: 7 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 4 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 2 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 1 students
- **Traumatic Brain Injury**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $20,737
- **Federal share**: $1,662
- **State + local share**: $19,075
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $22,612,465
- **Federal share**: 11.6%
- **State share**: 46.9%
- **Local share**: 41.5%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $10,203,474

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $98,071
- **Poverty rate**: 4.2%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 35.8%
- **Unemployment**: 2.6%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,675
- **Foreign-born residents**: 3.1%
- **Single-parent households**: 9.9%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 21.5 miles (TRI COUNTY LANDFILL CO WASTE MANAGEMENT OF ILLINOIS INC)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 1
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 20
- **Nearest brownfield**: 4.01 miles (PROTANO S AUTO PARTS)

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

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 7.21014 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 19.7 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **South Prairie Elementary School** — 4.8 mi away, 7.09% (this school: 8.49%)
- **Jefferson Elem School** — 4.8 mi away, 4.7% (this school: 8.49%)
- **Southeast Elem School** — 5.2 mi away, 1.97% (this school: 8.49%)
- **North Grove Elementary School** — 7.6 mi away, 1.33% (this school: 8.49%)
- **Malta Elementary School** — 9.0 mi away, 5.92% (this school: 8.49%)

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