# Gard Elementary School

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `170531000217`
- **School name**: Gard Elementary School
- **Location**: Beardstown, IL 62618
- **Address**: 400 E 15th St
- **District**: Beardstown CUSD 15 (LEAID `1705310`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–4
- **Coordinates**: 40.00710, -90.42400
- **Phone**: (217)323-1364

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 711
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 38
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 18.7:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 77.1%

## 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 46.9% (217 students) [source: crdc_2020]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.6%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 46.9%
- **Black/African American**: 2.0%
- **Asian**: 12.3%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 28.5%
- **Pacific Islander**: 1.8%
- **Two or more races**: 7.9%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 73.2%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 22.0% — 102 students


## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 25 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 19 students
- **Developmental Delay**: 10 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 8 students
- **Autism**: 3 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 2 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 1 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students
- **Traumatic Brain Injury**: 1 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $11,078
- **Federal share**: $1,565
- **State + local share**: $9,513
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $16,911,375
- **Federal share**: 10.2%
- **State share**: 67.6%
- **Local share**: 22.2%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $7,847,174

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $71,618
- **Poverty rate**: 7.5%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 24.3%
- **Unemployment**: 2.4%
- **Median gross rent**: $699
- **Foreign-born residents**: 17.1%
- **Single-parent households**: 2.6%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 45.0 miles (ADAMS COUNTY QUINCY LANDFILLS 2 3)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 1
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 2
- **Nearest brownfield**: 15.56 miles (SUNSHINE STORE)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: BEARDSTOWN
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2024-01-01

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Beardstown Jr/Sr High School** — 0.1 mi away, 26.15% (this school: 46.87%)
- **Washington Elem School** — 10.5 mi away, 18.69% (this school: 46.87%)
- **Webster Elem School** — 11.0 mi away, 23.3% (this school: 46.87%)
- **Rushville-Industry High School** — 11.2 mi away, 24.47% (this school: 46.87%)
- **Schuyler Industry Middle School** — 11.2 mi away, 6.73% (this school: 46.87%)

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