# Gower Middle School

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `171716002020`
- **School name**: Gower Middle School
- **Location**: Burr Ridge, IL 60527
- **Address**: 7941 S Madison St
- **District**: Gower SD 62 (LEAID `1717160`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 5–8
- **Coordinates**: 41.74409, -87.93355
- **Phone**: (630)986-5383

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 409
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 33
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 12.4:1

## 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 5.7% (21 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**: 9.3%
- **Black/African American**: 15.3%
- **Asian**: 4.4%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 60.3%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 10.7%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 10.7% — 40 students


## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 10 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 5 students
- **Autism**: 1 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 1 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 1 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $18,974
- **Federal share**: $204
- **State + local share**: $18,770
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $24,909,978
- **Federal share**: 5.3%
- **State share**: 22.0%
- **Local share**: 72.7%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $12,746,204

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $110,774
- **Poverty rate**: 10.8%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 56.7%
- **Unemployment**: 4.7%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,392
- **Foreign-born residents**: 23.1%
- **Single-parent households**: 2.1%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 2.6 miles (LENZ OIL SERVICE INC)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 7
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 23
- **Nearest brownfield**: 5.73 miles (TRI CENTRAL MARINE TERMINAL)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: BURR RIDGE
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2024-07-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 8.50493 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 6.5 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Gower West Elem School** — 1.2 mi away, 3.8% (this school: 5.68%)
- **Concord Elem School** — 1.9 mi away, 4.69% (this school: 5.68%)
- **Pleasantdale Middle Sch** — 2.0 mi away, 4.27% (this school: 5.68%)
- **Pleasantdale Elementary School** — 2.1 mi away, 5.21% (this school: 5.68%)
- **Eisenhower Jr High School** — 2.5 mi away, 4.66% (this school: 5.68%)

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