# DeKalb High School

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `171200001449`
- **School name**: DeKalb High School
- **Location**: Dekalb, IL 60115
- **Address**: 501 W Dresser Rd
- **District**: DeKalb CUSD 428 (LEAID `1712000`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 41.95440, -88.75852
- **Phone**: (815)754-2100
- **Wikidata QID**: Q5243948 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeKalb_High_School_(Illinois)

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 2,134
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 141
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 15.1:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 61.3%

## 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

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 77.1% (cohort of 516)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 689

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 22.2% (428 students) [source: crdc_2020]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 8
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.2%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 29.4%
- **Black/African American**: 1.9%
- **Asian**: 19.6%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 44.7%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.1%
- **Two or more races**: 4.2%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 61.4%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 16.2% — 313 students


## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 133 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 56 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 47 students
- **Autism**: 39 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 19 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 6 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 4 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 2 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 2 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students
- **Traumatic Brain Injury**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $18,089
- **Federal share**: $911
- **State + local share**: $17,178
### 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**: $61,042
- **Poverty rate**: 11.9%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 39.6%
- **Unemployment**: 7.0%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,332
- **Foreign-born residents**: 10.4%
- **Single-parent households**: 18.6%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 20.3 miles (ACME SOLVENT RECLAIMING INC MORRISTOWN PLANT)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 24
- **Nearest brownfield**: 2.73 miles (PROTANO S AUTO PARTS)

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

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Jefferson Elem School** — 0.5 mi away, 4.7% (this school: 22.16%)
- **Gwendolyn Brooks Elem Sch** — 0.9 mi away, 17.67% (this school: 22.16%)
- **Littlejohn Elem School** — 1.5 mi away, 12.05% (this school: 22.16%)
- **Founders Elementary School** — 2.4 mi away, 13.3% (this school: 22.16%)
- **Tyler Elementary School** — 2.4 mi away, 20.92% (this school: 22.16%)

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