# Creative Communications Acad

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `171242006230`
- **School name**: Creative Communications Acad
- **Location**: Calumet City, IL 60409
- **Address**: 292 Torrence Ave
- **District**: Dolton SD 149 (LEAID `1712420`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 7–8
- **Coordinates**: 41.61654, -87.56645
- **Phone**: (708)868-7585

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 246
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 12
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 20.5:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 100.0%

## 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 44.7% (88 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**: 2.1%
- **Black/African American**: 0.0%
- **Asian**: 97.3%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 0.0%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 0.5%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 100.0%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 17.1% — 34 students


## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 24 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 8 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 4 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 2 students
- **Autism**: 1 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $19,714
- **Federal share**: $2,906
- **State + local share**: $16,808
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $19,818,688
- **Federal share**: 10.6%
- **State share**: 59.4%
- **Local share**: 30.0%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $7,725,246

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $65,336
- **Poverty rate**: 11.0%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 22.2%
- **Unemployment**: 7.7%
- **Median gross rent**: $815
- **Foreign-born residents**: 6.6%
- **Single-parent households**: 34.1%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 2.2 miles (ESTECH GENERAL CHEMICAL COMPANY)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 105
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.39 miles (SITE 2 TORRENCE D)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: CALUMET CITY
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 8
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 6
- **Most recent violation**: 2025-08-02

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 7.81133 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 2.7 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **S T E M Academy** — 0.0 mi away, 27.37% (this school: 44.67%)
- **Carol Moseley Braun School** — 0.1 mi away, 21.05% (this school: 44.67%)
- **Caroline Sibley Elem School** — 0.5 mi away, 14.62% (this school: 44.67%)
- **New Beginnings Learning Academy** — 0.5 mi away, 30.29% (this school: 44.67%)
- **Diekman Elem School** — 0.9 mi away, 14.96% (this school: 44.67%)

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