# Gardner-South Wilmington Twp H S

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `171626001942`
- **School name**: Gardner-South Wilmington Twp H S
- **Location**: Gardner, IL 60424
- **Address**: 500 E Main St
- **District**: Gardner S Wilmington Twp HSD 73 (LEAID `1716260`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 41.18550, -88.30250
- **Phone**: (815)237-2176

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 154
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 18
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 8.6:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 29.9%

## 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

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 87.2% (cohort of 39)
- **2017**: 95.0% (cohort of 42)
- **2016**: 95.0% (cohort of 49)
- **2015**: 84.0% (cohort of 54)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 49

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 13.8% (25 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**: 6.8%
- **Black/African American**: 0.5%
- **Asian**: 1.0%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 90.7%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 1.0%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 32.4%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 8.3% — 15 students


## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 12 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 7 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 6 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 4 students
- **Autism**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Career & Technical Education / Dual Enrollment

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $28,270
- **Federal share**: $1,175
- **State + local share**: $27,095
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $25,666,667
- **Federal share**: 4.2%
- **State share**: 35.8%
- **Local share**: 60.0%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $11,812,121

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $80,547
- **Poverty rate**: 12.5%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 15.5%
- **Unemployment**: 7.6%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,087
- **Foreign-born residents**: 0.7%
- **Single-parent households**: 20.2%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 15.2 miles (JOLIET ARMY AMMUNITION PLANT MANUFACTURING AREA)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 0
- **Nearest brownfield**: 12.03 miles (FORMER CELOTEX DUMP)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: GARDNER
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2020-12-30

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 6.8725 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 6.3 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Gardner Elem School** — 0.6 mi away, 13.5% (this school: 13.81%)
- **South Wilmington Grade School** — 1.5 mi away, 5.95% (this school: 13.81%)
- **Coal City Early Childhood Center** — 6.3 mi away, 5.39% (this school: 13.81%)
- **Coal City Middle School** — 6.5 mi away, 9.55% (this school: 13.81%)
- **Reed-Custer Elementary School** — 6.7 mi away, 12.63% (this school: 13.81%)

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