# Independence Jr High School

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `173057003177`
- **School name**: Independence Jr High School
- **Location**: Palos Heights, IL 60463
- **Address**: 6610 W Highland Dr
- **District**: Palos Heights SD 128 (LEAID `1730570`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Coordinates**: 41.65843, -87.78290
- **Phone**: (708)448-0737

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 236
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 21
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 11.2:1

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2025
- **Overall (IL Report Card)**: 82.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 25.2% (63 students) [source: crdc_2020]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 2
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 18.0%
- **Black/African American**: 1.2%
- **Asian**: 4.8%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 74.0%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.4%
- **Two or more races**: 1.6%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 15.6% — 39 students


## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 8 students
- **Autism**: 5 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 5 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 4 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 2 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 1 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $17,673
- **Federal share**: $702
- **State + local share**: $16,970
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $19,421,833
- **Federal share**: 6.6%
- **State share**: 23.4%
- **Local share**: 70.0%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $10,504,043

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $114,886
- **Poverty rate**: 6.3%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 43.5%
- **Unemployment**: 4.5%
- **Foreign-born residents**: 9.4%
- **Single-parent households**: 3.9%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 8.9 miles (LENZ OIL SERVICE INC)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 45
- **Nearest brownfield**: 3.10 miles (CHRYSLER PARCELS)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: PALOS HEIGHTS
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2025-07-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 6.88793 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 2.7 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **A B Shepard High Sch (Campus)** — 0.4 mi away, 14.32% (this school: 25.2%)
- **Navajo Heights Elem School** — 0.6 mi away, 8.33% (this school: 25.2%)
- **Indian Hill** — 0.7 mi away, 11.02% (this school: 25.2%)
- **Chippewa Elem School** — 0.9 mi away, 9.05% (this school: 25.2%)
- **Palos East Elementary School** — 1.3 mi away, 15.81% (this school: 25.2%)

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