# Garfield Elem School

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `170996001220`
- **School name**: Garfield Elem School
- **Location**: Chicago Heights, IL 60411
- **Address**: 140 E 23rd St
- **District**: Chicago Heights SD 170 (LEAID `1709960`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Coordinates**: 41.49392, -87.63174
- **Phone**: (708)756-4150

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 248
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 20
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 12.4:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 98.4%

## 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 39.1% (79 students) [source: crdc_2020]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 90.8%
- **Black/African American**: 0.0%
- **Asian**: 7.6%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 0.5%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 1.1%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 98.6%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 7.1% — 14 students


## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 23 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 6 students
- **Developmental Delay**: 3 students
- **Autism**: 2 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 2 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 2 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $19,582
- **Federal share**: $4,302
- **State + local share**: $15,281
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $27,658,364
- **Federal share**: 22.3%
- **State share**: 52.4%
- **Local share**: 25.3%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $12,838,290

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $38,988
- **Poverty rate**: 27.8%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 4.9%
- **Unemployment**: 5.8%
- **Median gross rent**: $999
- **Foreign-born residents**: 22.6%
- **Single-parent households**: 9.0%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 10.8 miles (ESTECH GENERAL CHEMICAL COMPANY)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 6
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 37
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.45 miles (CHICAGO HEIGHTS COAL)

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

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 7.81133 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 7.0 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **U S Grant Elem School** — 0.6 mi away, 27.53% (this school: 39.11%)
- **Washington-McKinley Elem Sch** — 0.7 mi away, 31.58% (this school: 39.11%)
- **Steger Primary Center** — 1.2 mi away, 31.13% (this school: 39.11%)
- **Roosevelt Elem School** — 1.4 mi away, 24.27% (this school: 39.11%)
- **Barack Obama Sch of Ldership** — 1.6 mi away, 38.86% (this school: 39.11%)

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