# East Prairie Middle School

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `173960003999`
- **School name**: East Prairie Middle School
- **Location**: Tuscola, IL 61953
- **Address**: 409 S Prairie St
- **District**: Tuscola CUSD 301 (LEAID `1739600`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 5–8
- **Coordinates**: 39.79593, -88.27184
- **Phone**: (217)253-2828

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 271
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 23
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 11.8:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 42.8%

## 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 21.4% (62 students) [source: crdc_2020]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 4
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 6.0%
- **Black/African American**: 0.0%
- **Asian**: 3.7%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 90.0%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.3%
- **Two or more races**: 0.0%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 45.3%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 17.6% — 51 students


## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 21 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 3 students
- **Autism**: 2 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 2 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $12,800
- **Federal share**: $239
- **State + local share**: $12,562
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $19,120,743
- **Federal share**: 8.0%
- **State share**: 25.1%
- **Local share**: 66.9%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $8,475,748

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $68,818
- **Poverty rate**: 8.1%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 21.5%
- **Unemployment**: 0.5%
- **Median gross rent**: $819
- **Foreign-born residents**: 2.4%
- **Single-parent households**: 15.1%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 38.2 miles (HEGELER ZINC)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 3
- **Nearest brownfield**: 15.27 miles (FORMER NEWMAN SCHOOL)

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

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 6.28143 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 18.5 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Tuscola High School** — 0.1 mi away, 16.22% (this school: 21.45%)
- **North Ward Elementary School** — 0.9 mi away, 12.94% (this school: 21.45%)
- **Villa Grove Elem School** — 7.7 mi away, 14.6% (this school: 21.45%)
- **Arcola Elementary School** — 8.1 mi away, 16.39% (this school: 21.45%)
- **Atwood-Hammond Grade School** — 10.3 mi away, 8.75% (this school: 21.45%)

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