# Friendship Jr High School

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `171377001730`
- **School name**: Friendship Jr High School
- **Location**: Des Plaines, IL 60018
- **Address**: 550 Elizabeth Ln
- **District**: Comm Cons SD 59 (LEAID `1713770`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Coordinates**: 42.02746, -87.93493
- **Phone**: (847)593-4350

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 633
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 59
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 10.7:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 61.5%

## 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 21.3% (139 students) [source: crdc_2020]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 7
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 2.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 32.5%
- **Black/African American**: 17.3%
- **Asian**: 3.3%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 42.5%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 2.5%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 63.8%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 9.5% — 62 students


## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 36 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 13 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 9 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 7 students
- **Autism**: 6 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 2 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $19,322
- **Federal share**: $631
- **State + local share**: $18,691
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $28,137,931
- **Federal share**: 6.2%
- **State share**: 26.6%
- **Local share**: 67.2%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $12,436,326

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $85,216
- **Poverty rate**: 5.9%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 31.2%
- **Unemployment**: 3.2%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,503
- **Foreign-born residents**: 37.8%
- **Single-parent households**: 7.8%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 17.4 miles (KERR MCGEE RESIDENTIAL AREAS)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 12
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 183
- **Nearest brownfield**: 2.88 miles (DESPLAINES RAND AND PINE ROAD PROPERTY)

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

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 7.25566 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 4.3 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Devonshire School** — 0.5 mi away, 6.12% (this school: 21.32%)
- **Terrace Elem School** — 1.2 mi away, 6.1% (this school: 21.32%)
- **Brentwood Elem School** — 1.3 mi away, 5.41% (this school: 21.32%)
- **Robert Frost Elem School** — 1.4 mi away, 10.85% (this school: 21.32%)
- **Forest Elem School** — 1.5 mi away, 4.98% (this school: 21.32%)

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