# Hernandez Middle School

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `170993006091`
- **School name**: Hernandez Middle School
- **Location**: Chicago, IL 60632
- **Address**: 3510 W 55th St
- **District**: Chicago Public Schools Dist 299 (LEAID `1709930`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Coordinates**: 41.79390, -87.71150
- **Phone**: (773)535-8850

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 720
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 50
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 14.4:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 94.9%

## 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 18.2% (185 students) [source: crdc_2020]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.7%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 97.1%
- **Black/African American**: 0.3%
- **Asian**: 1.2%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 0.6%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 0.1%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 93.6%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 10.1% — 102 students


## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 96 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 14 students
- **Autism**: 11 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 6 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $17,783
- **Federal share**: $3,500
- **State + local share**: $14,283
### 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**: $64,871
- **Poverty rate**: 15.1%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 8.4%
- **Unemployment**: 5.5%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,009
- **Foreign-born residents**: 56.5%
- **Single-parent households**: 11.2%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 10.6 miles (ACME STEEL COKE PLANT)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 12
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 246
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.48 miles (UNO GAGE SOCCER ACADEMY)

### 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**: 2.9 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Sandoval Elem School** — 0.1 mi away, 17.96% (this school: 18.23%)
- **Acero Chtr Network - Jovita Idar** — 0.5 mi away, 10.22% (this school: 18.23%)
- **Peck Elem School** — 0.6 mi away, 12.54% (this school: 18.23%)
- **Acero Chtr - Rufino Tamayo Elem** — 1.0 mi away, 11.83% (this school: 18.23%)
- **Pasteur Elem School** — 1.2 mi away, 16.58% (this school: 18.23%)

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