# Hawthorn Middle School South

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `171857002150`
- **School name**: Hawthorn Middle School South
- **Location**: Vernon Hills, IL 60061
- **Address**: 600 N Aspen Dr
- **District**: Hawthorn CCSD 73 (LEAID `1718570`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Coordinates**: 42.23769, -87.97228
- **Phone**: (847)990-4100

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 609
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 54
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 11.3:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 30.7%

## 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 8.2% (56 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**: 29.3%
- **Black/African American**: 21.3%
- **Asian**: 3.8%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 40.6%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.1%
- **Two or more races**: 4.7%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 30.7%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 13.7% — 94 students


## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 45 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 24 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 13 students
- **Autism**: 4 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 2 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 1 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $16,967
- **Federal share**: $701
- **State + local share**: $16,266
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $22,499,583
- **Federal share**: 5.0%
- **State share**: 25.6%
- **Local share**: 69.4%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $10,953,624

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $158,158
- **Poverty rate**: 2.4%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 68.8%
- **Unemployment**: 2.0%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,800
- **Foreign-born residents**: 20.0%
- **Single-parent households**: 3.3%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 9.0 miles (WAUCONDA SAND GRAVEL)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 7
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 31
- **Nearest brownfield**: 7.74 miles (FORMER NORTH CHICAGO INN)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: VERNON HILLS - LAKE CO PW
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2024-07-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 7.29172 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 11.1 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Hawthorn Aspen Elem School** — 0.2 mi away, 7.22% (this school: 8.19%)
- **Hawthorn Elem School South** — 0.2 mi away, 3.63% (this school: 8.19%)
- **Hawthorn Middle School North** — 0.3 mi away, 6.84% (this school: 8.19%)
- **Vernon Hills High School** — 1.4 mi away, 5.22% (this school: 8.19%)
- **Woodlawn Middle School** — 2.4 mi away, 2.81% (this school: 8.19%)

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