# Gary Elementary School

*Machine-readable school profile — served at https://us.il.whatschool.ai/en/il/school/gary-elementary-school-west-chicago/llm*

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `174155004159`
- **School name**: Gary Elementary School
- **Location**: West Chicago, IL 60185
- **Address**: 130 E Forest Ave
- **District**: West Chicago ESD 33 (LEAID `1741550`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–5
- **Coordinates**: 41.87040, -88.20315
- **Phone**: (630)293-6010

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 425
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 32
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 13.3:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 59.3%

## 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 9.1% (47 students) [source: crdc_2020]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 3
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.2%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 82.4%
- **Black/African American**: 1.4%
- **Asian**: 1.4%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 13.2%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 1.6%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 59.3%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 11.8% — 61 students


## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Developmental Delay**: 18 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 13 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 9 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 6 students
- **Autism**: 4 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 4 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 1 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $22,501
- **Federal share**: $1,167
- **State + local share**: $21,334
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $30,125,573
- **Federal share**: 8.7%
- **State share**: 48.4%
- **Local share**: 42.9%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $15,820,528

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $99,133
- **Poverty rate**: 12.6%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 8.8%
- **Unemployment**: 7.7%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,784
- **Foreign-born residents**: 41.0%
- **Single-parent households**: 9.6%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 0.6 miles (KERR MCGEE KRESS CREEK WEST BRANCH OF DUPAGE RIVER)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 2
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 74
- **Nearest brownfield**: 3.46 miles (MUSSELMAN LUMBER CO FORMER)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: WEST CHICAGO
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 8.1749 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 7.3 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Benjamin Middle School** — 3.4 mi away, 7.29% (this school: 9.11%)
- **Evergreen Elementary School** — 4.2 mi away, 3.79% (this school: 9.11%)
- **Carol Stream Elem School** — 4.6 mi away, 7.67% (this school: 9.11%)
- **Harrison Street Elem School** — 4.8 mi away, 6.37% (this school: 9.11%)
- **Whittier Elem School** — 5.0 mi away, 8.8% (this school: 9.11%)

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