# J Sterling Morton East High Sch

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `172688002871`
- **School name**: J Sterling Morton East High Sch
- **Location**: Cicero, IL 60804
- **Address**: 2423 S Austin Blvd
- **District**: J S Morton HSD 201 (LEAID `1726880`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 10–12
- **Coordinates**: 41.84649, -87.77312
- **Phone**: (708)780-4000
- **Wikidata QID**: Q6107127 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Sterling_Morton_High_School_East
- **Founded**: 1894

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 3,394
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 185
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 18.3:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 87.2%

## 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**: 79.5% (cohort of 1,197)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 1,931

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 22.8% (793 students) [source: crdc_2020]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.4%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 95.6%
- **Black/African American**: 0.1%
- **Asian**: 1.5%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 1.7%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 0.8%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 87.5%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 8.8% — 308 students


## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 278 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 55 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 53 students
- **Autism**: 39 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 37 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 12 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 10 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 4 students
- **Traumatic Brain Injury**: 2 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $17,452
- **Federal share**: $1,229
- **State + local share**: $16,223
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $24,585,697
- **Federal share**: 10.4%
- **State share**: 52.6%
- **Local share**: 37.0%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $8,824,784

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $68,438
- **Poverty rate**: 12.6%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 16.7%
- **Unemployment**: 8.4%
- **Median gross rent**: $992
- **Foreign-born residents**: 36.7%
- **Single-parent households**: 9.6%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 13.0 miles (LENZ OIL SERVICE INC)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 8
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 219
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.78 miles (5333 W 25TH STREET)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: CICERO
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 4
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2025-08-22

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 7.46167 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 1.8 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Goodwin Elementary School** — 0.3 mi away, 13.42% (this school: 22.78%)
- **Woodrow Wilson Elem School** — 0.4 mi away, 13.87% (this school: 22.78%)
- **Komensky Elem School** — 0.5 mi away, 8.82% (this school: 22.78%)
- **Sherlock Elem School** — 0.8 mi away, 21.35% (this school: 22.78%)
- **Hiawatha Elem School** — 0.8 mi away, 12.43% (this school: 22.78%)

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