# Cottage Grove Upper Grade Center

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `171095005419`
- **School name**: Cottage Grove Upper Grade Center
- **Location**: Ford Heights, IL 60411
- **Address**: 800 E 14th St
- **District**: Ford Heights SD 169 (LEAID `1710950`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 5–8
- **Coordinates**: 41.50561, -87.59597
- **Phone**: (708)758-1400

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 156
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 11
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 14.2:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 98.7%

## 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

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 4.5%
- **Black/African American**: 0.0%
- **Asian**: 95.5%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 0.0%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 0.0%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 96.4%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 11.5% — 19 students


## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 25 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 6 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 5 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 2 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $27,916
- **Federal share**: $2,298
- **State + local share**: $25,618
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $42,632,883
- **Federal share**: 27.8%
- **State share**: 25.5%
- **Local share**: 46.7%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $10,259,009

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $53,409
- **Poverty rate**: 25.2%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 19.1%
- **Unemployment**: 12.2%
- **Median gross rent**: $924
- **Foreign-born residents**: 1.6%
- **Single-parent households**: 14.0%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 9.2 miles (AMERICAN CHEMICAL SERVICE INC)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 5
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 34
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.23 miles (LINCOLN HIGHWAY INDUSTRIAL CORRIDOR SITE D)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: FORD HEIGHTS
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2025-10-12

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 7.81133 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 5.4 miles

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