# Jack Benny Middle School

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `174125004131`
- **School name**: Jack Benny Middle School
- **Location**: Waukegan, IL 60087
- **Address**: 1401 Montesano Ave
- **District**: Waukegan CUSD 60 (LEAID `1741250`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Coordinates**: 42.39492, -87.84746
- **Phone**: (224)303-2470

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 475
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 38
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 12.5:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 62.1%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2025
- **Overall (IL Report Card)**: 50.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 68.2% (422 students) [source: crdc_2020]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.5%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 73.6%
- **Black/African American**: 4.2%
- **Asian**: 13.8%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 5.0%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 2.9%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 64.2%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 13.4% — 83 students


## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 34 students
- **Autism**: 13 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 10 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 7 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 4 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 2 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 1 students
- **Traumatic Brain Injury**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $21,039
- **Federal share**: $1,924
- **State + local share**: $19,115
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $22,627,544
- **Federal share**: 12.2%
- **State share**: 63.4%
- **Local share**: 24.4%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $11,528,406

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $81,682
- **Poverty rate**: 4.8%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 12.3%
- **Unemployment**: 9.5%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,346
- **Foreign-born residents**: 26.2%
- **Single-parent households**: 9.6%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 0.4 miles (YEOMAN CREEK LANDFILL)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 28
- **Nearest brownfield**: 2.40 miles (WAUKEGAN GAS STATION)

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

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 6.02002 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 7.8 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Little Fort Elem School** — 0.3 mi away, 24.52% (this school: 68.17%)
- **John S Clark Elem School** — 0.5 mi away, 12.02% (this school: 68.17%)
- **Greenwood Elem School** — 0.8 mi away, 17.86% (this school: 68.17%)
- **Clearview Elem School** — 1.1 mi away, 42.89% (this school: 68.17%)
- **Oakdale Elem School** — 1.1 mi away, 31.16% (this school: 68.17%)

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