# Fairfield Elem Academy

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Full profile (human-readable): https://us.il.whatschool.ai/en/il/school/fairfield-elem-academy-chicago

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `170993002631`
- **School name**: Fairfield Elem Academy
- **Location**: Chicago, IL 60629
- **Address**: 6201 S Fairfield Ave
- **District**: Chicago Public Schools Dist 299 (LEAID `1709930`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Coordinates**: 41.78060, -87.69190
- **Phone**: (773)535-9500

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 492
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 35
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 14.1:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 98.2%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: IL Report Card
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Targeted
- **Indicators**:
  - overall: Targeted

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2025
- **Overall (IL Report Card)**: 50.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 28.1% (149 students) [source: crdc_2020]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.4%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 77.7%
- **Black/African American**: 0.0%
- **Asian**: 21.1%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 0.4%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 0.4%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 96.6%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 10.9% — 58 students


## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 30 students
- **Autism**: 11 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 8 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 6 students
- **Developmental Delay**: 5 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 5 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 3 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $18,276
- **Federal share**: $2,920
- **State + local share**: $15,355
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $25,576,784
- **Federal share**: 17.4%
- **State share**: 29.9%
- **Local share**: 52.8%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $13,747,371

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $41,907
- **Poverty rate**: 22.1%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 9.5%
- **Unemployment**: 17.4%
- **Median gross rent**: $892
- **Foreign-born residents**: 20.7%
- **Single-parent households**: 16.9%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 9.3 miles (ACME STEEL COKE PLANT)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 2
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 199
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.27 miles (WOOD STREET URBAN FARM)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: CHICAGO
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2025-07-02

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 7.10667 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 2.3 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Marquette Elem School** — 0.5 mi away, 17.67% (this school: 28.06%)
- **Catalyst Charter - Maria ES** — 0.7 mi away, 16.12% (this school: 28.06%)
- **McKay Elem School** — 0.9 mi away, 24.28% (this school: 28.06%)
- **Carson Elem School** — 0.9 mi away, 10.93% (this school: 28.06%)
- **Talman Elem School** — 0.9 mi away, 23.46% (this school: 28.06%)

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