# Founders Elementary School

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `171200006172`
- **School name**: Founders Elementary School
- **Location**: Dekalb, IL 60115
- **Address**: 821 S 7th St
- **District**: DeKalb CUSD 428 (LEAID `1712000`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–5
- **Coordinates**: 41.92095, -88.74958
- **Phone**: (815)754-3800

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 565
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 38
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 14.9:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 78.1%

## 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 13.3% (75 students) [source: crdc_2020]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 2
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 41.4%
- **Black/African American**: 0.4%
- **Asian**: 27.6%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 23.1%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 7.5%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 76.2%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 14.7% — 83 students


## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 28 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 11 students
- **Developmental Delay**: 9 students
- **Autism**: 6 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 4 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 4 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 4 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 3 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $17,933
- **Federal share**: $1,657
- **State + local share**: $16,276
### 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**: $59,375
- **Poverty rate**: 18.0%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 15.8%
- **Unemployment**: 10.9%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,030
- **Foreign-born residents**: 11.5%
- **Single-parent households**: 19.3%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 22.3 miles (ACME SOLVENT RECLAIMING INC MORRISTOWN PLANT)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 7
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 20
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.45 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
- **Lincoln Elementary School** — 0.4 mi away, 10.14% (this school: 13.3%)
- **Littlejohn Elem School** — 1.4 mi away, 12.05% (this school: 13.3%)
- **Jefferson Elem School** — 1.9 mi away, 4.7% (this school: 13.3%)
- **Cortland Elementary School** — 3.9 mi away, 8.49% (this school: 13.3%)
- **South Prairie Elementary School** — 4.5 mi away, 7.09% (this school: 13.3%)

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