# Gillespie Middle School

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `171668000560`
- **School name**: Gillespie Middle School
- **Location**: Gillespie, IL 62033
- **Address**: 412 Oregon St
- **District**: Gillespie CUSD 7 (LEAID `1716680`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Coordinates**: 39.12820, -89.82580
- **Phone**: (217)839-2116

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 244
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 17
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 14.4:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 62.7%

## 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 20.7% (56 students) [source: crdc_2020]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 2.2%
- **Black/African American**: 0.7%
- **Asian**: 0.0%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 93.8%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.4%
- **Two or more races**: 2.9%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 99.6%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 19.2% — 52 students


## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 19 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 7 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 3 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 2 students
- **Autism**: 1 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $12,410
- **Federal share**: $944
- **State + local share**: $11,466
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $18,449,558
- **Federal share**: 15.7%
- **State share**: 62.2%
- **Local share**: 22.1%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $9,100,000

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $75,559
- **Poverty rate**: 16.7%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 19.0%
- **Unemployment**: 4.9%
- **Median gross rent**: $766
- **Foreign-born residents**: 0.1%
- **Single-parent households**: 19.4%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 17.2 miles (ASARCO TAYLOR SPRINGS)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 0
- **Nearest brownfield**: 17.26 miles (MESD PROPERTY)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: GILLESPIE
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 2
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2025-08-22

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Gillespie High School** — 0.0 mi away, 20.51% (this school: 20.66%)
- **Ben-Gil Elementary School** — 0.3 mi away, 13.58% (this school: 20.66%)
- **Mt Olive High School** — 6.1 mi away, 14.81% (this school: 20.66%)
- **Mt Olive Elementary School** — 6.1 mi away, 4.23% (this school: 20.66%)
- **Staunton High School** — 7.7 mi away, 15.67% (this school: 20.66%)

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