# J Sterling Morton West High Sch

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `172688002872`
- **School name**: J Sterling Morton West High Sch
- **Location**: Berwyn, IL 60402
- **Address**: 2400 Home Ave
- **District**: J S Morton HSD 201 (LEAID `1726880`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 41.84636, -87.79967
- **Phone**: (708)780-4100
- **Wikidata QID**: Q6107131 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Sterling_Morton_High_School_West
- **Founded**: 1958

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 3,374
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 218
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 15.5:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 78.2%

## 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**: 82.8% (cohort of 903)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 1,441

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 15.0% (544 students) [source: crdc_2020]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 1
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.1%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 87.5%
- **Black/African American**: 1.2%
- **Asian**: 4.7%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 5.7%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 0.7%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 78.8%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 12.9% — 467 students


## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 271 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 58 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 55 students
- **Autism**: 53 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 40 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 7 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 5 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 3 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 1 students
- **Traumatic Brain Injury**: 1 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $16,705
- **Federal share**: $1,479
- **State + local share**: $15,227
### 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**: $67,435
- **Poverty rate**: 7.1%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 22.1%
- **Unemployment**: 10.3%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,248
- **Foreign-born residents**: 21.9%
- **Single-parent households**: 17.0%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 12.1 miles (LENZ OIL SERVICE INC)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 2
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 189
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.97 miles (OSWALD PROPERTY)

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

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 7.46167 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 2.9 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Piper School** — 0.2 mi away, 9.64% (this school: 14.98%)
- **Hiawatha Elem School** — 0.6 mi away, 12.43% (this school: 14.98%)
- **Heritage Middle School** — 0.8 mi away, 6.16% (this school: 14.98%)
- **Blythe Park Elem School** — 0.8 mi away, 3.29% (this school: 14.98%)
- **Komensky Elem School** — 0.9 mi away, 8.82% (this school: 14.98%)

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