# Gillespie Elem School

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `170993000816`
- **School name**: Gillespie Elem School
- **Location**: Chicago, IL 60619
- **Address**: 9301 S State St
- **District**: Chicago Public Schools Dist 299 (LEAID `1709930`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Coordinates**: 41.72480, -87.62320
- **Phone**: (773)535-5065

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 288
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 24
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 12.0:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 79.9%

## 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 22.8% (98 students) [source: crdc_2020]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 2.3%
- **Black/African American**: 0.0%
- **Asian**: 97.0%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 0.5%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 0.2%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 85.1%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 14.3% — 61 students


## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 33 students
- **Autism**: 11 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 7 students
- **Developmental Delay**: 4 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 3 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 3 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 1 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 1 students
- **Traumatic Brain Injury**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $20,759
- **Federal share**: $3,179
- **State + local share**: $17,580
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $25,576,784
- **Federal share**: 17.4%
- **State share**: 29.9%
- **Local share**: 52.8%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $13,747,371

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $65,268
- **Poverty rate**: 13.7%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 28.3%
- **Unemployment**: 24.0%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,210
- **Foreign-born residents**: 1.1%
- **Single-parent households**: 16.5%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 4.1 miles (ACME STEEL COKE PLANT)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 1
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 64
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.09 miles (9705 S COTTAGE GROVE)

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

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 7.10667 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 5.0 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **McDade Elem Classical School** — 0.7 mi away, 4.97% (this school: 22.84%)
- **Kipling Elem School** — 0.8 mi away, 21.03% (this school: 22.84%)
- **Evers Elem School** — 1.0 mi away, 10.55% (this school: 22.84%)
- **Ryder Elem Math & Sci Spec School** — 1.1 mi away, 12.7% (this school: 22.84%)
- **Wacker Elem School** — 1.4 mi away, 16.67% (this school: 22.84%)

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