# Herscher High School

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `171884002170`
- **School name**: Herscher High School
- **Location**: Herscher, IL 60941
- **Address**: 501 N Main St
- **District**: Herscher CUSD 2 (LEAID `1718840`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 41.05566, -88.09942
- **Phone**: (815)426-2103
- **Wikidata QID**: Q5744369 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herscher_High_School

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 542
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 36
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 15.1:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 29.9%

## 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

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 97.3% (cohort of 112)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 136

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 6.9% (33 students) [source: crdc_2020]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.2%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 3.3%
- **Black/African American**: 0.6%
- **Asian**: 0.2%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 93.8%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 1.9%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 25.0%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 11.7% — 56 students


## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 16 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 15 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 9 students
- **Autism**: 5 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 2 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 2 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 1 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $17,190
- **Federal share**: $448
- **State + local share**: $16,742
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $19,757,487
- **Federal share**: 7.2%
- **State share**: 27.8%
- **Local share**: 65.0%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $7,220,200

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $85,682
- **Poverty rate**: 5.9%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 27.9%
- **Unemployment**: 6.0%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,090
- **Foreign-born residents**: 1.3%
- **Single-parent households**: 12.3%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 21.5 miles (JOLIET ARMY AMMUNITION PLANT LOAD ASSEMBLY PACKING AREA)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 1
- **Nearest brownfield**: 11.82 miles (1050 W JEFFERY)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: HERSCHER
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2025-07-02

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 6.8725 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 12.4 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Herscher Intermediate Sch** — 0.1 mi away, 6.36% (this school: 6.88%)
- **Chebanse Elem School** — 10.3 mi away, 5.94% (this school: 6.88%)
- **Kankakee High School** — 11.6 mi away, 0.41% (this school: 6.88%)
- **Taft Primary School** — 11.8 mi away, 1.14% (this school: 6.88%)
- **South Wilmington Grade School** — 12.4 mi away, 5.95% (this school: 6.88%)

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