# Gwendolyn Brooks Middle School

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `172925004581`
- **School name**: Gwendolyn Brooks Middle School
- **Location**: Oak Park, IL 60302
- **Address**: 325 S Kenilworth Ave
- **District**: Oak Park ESD 97 (LEAID `1729250`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Coordinates**: 41.88200, -87.79778
- **Phone**: (708)524-3050
- **Wikidata QID**: Q5623488 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gwendolyn_Brooks_Middle_School

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 947
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 74
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 12.8:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 20.8%

## 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 9.0% (82 students) [source: crdc_2020]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.1%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 13.7%
- **Black/African American**: 3.4%
- **Asian**: 19.2%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 52.0%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 11.6%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 23.6%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 13.6% — 123 students


## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 64 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 28 students
- **Autism**: 16 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 6 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 5 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 4 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 2 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 2 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 2 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $17,592
- **Federal share**: $772
- **State + local share**: $16,821
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $24,958,807
- **Federal share**: 2.9%
- **State share**: 29.7%
- **Local share**: 67.4%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $13,529,119

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $86,569
- **Poverty rate**: 6.7%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 64.4%
- **Unemployment**: 1.1%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,268
- **Foreign-born residents**: 11.7%
- **Single-parent households**: 21.1%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 14.2 miles (LENZ OIL SERVICE INC)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 2
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 195
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.37 miles (UNITY TEMPLE)

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

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 7.46167 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 2.8 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Oliver W Holmes Elem School** — 0.9 mi away, 3.23% (this school: 9.02%)
- **Longfellow Elem School** — 0.9 mi away, 6.12% (this school: 9.02%)
- **Abraham Lincoln Elem School** — 1.0 mi away, 5.35% (this school: 9.02%)
- **William Beye Elem School** — 1.0 mi away, 4.34% (this school: 9.02%)
- **Roosevelt School** — 1.1 mi away, 6.77% (this school: 9.02%)

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