# IJLA Charter High School

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `170993006238`
- **School name**: IJLA Charter High School
- **Location**: Chicago, IL 60608
- **Address**: 2570 S Blue Island
- **District**: Chicago Public Schools Dist 299 (LEAID `1709930`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Charter school**: Yes
- **Coordinates**: 41.84564, -87.68422
- **Phone**: (773)890-8060

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 95
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 0
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 78.9%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: IL Report Card
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Intensive
- **Indicators**:
  - overall: Intensive

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2025
- **Overall (IL Report Card)**: 32.0% proficient

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 27.8% (cohort of 79)

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 123.7% (120 students) [source: crdc_2020]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 97.9%
- **Black/African American**: 0.0%
- **Asian**: 2.1%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 0.0%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 0.0%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 71.6%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 20.6% — 20 students


## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 9 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 2 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $25,385
- **Federal share**: $567
- **State + local share**: $24,818
### 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**: $69,327
- **Poverty rate**: 19.0%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 46.5%
- **Unemployment**: 6.5%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,333
- **Foreign-born residents**: 27.4%
- **Single-parent households**: 10.0%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 12.6 miles (ACME STEEL COKE PLANT)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 8
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 274
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.57 miles (BNSF LITTLE VILLAGE PASEO SEGMENT 6)

### 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**: 7.46167 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 3.6 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **IHSCA Charter High School** — 0.1 mi away, 2.85% (this school: 123.71%)
- **Ruiz Elem School** — 0.2 mi away, 18.06% (this school: 123.71%)
- **Finkl Elem School** — 0.3 mi away, 30.7% (this school: 123.71%)
- **Pickard Elem School** — 0.5 mi away, 11.52% (this school: 123.71%)
- **Acero Chtr - Octavio Paz Elem Sch** — 0.5 mi away, 35.29% (this school: 123.71%)

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