# James Avant Elementary School

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `171332005999`
- **School name**: James Avant Elementary School
- **Location**: Washington Pk, IL 62204
- **Address**: 1915 N 55th St
- **District**: East St Louis SD 189 (LEAID `1713320`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–5
- **Coordinates**: 38.63556, -90.09279
- **Phone**: (618)646-3870

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 342
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 35
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 9.8:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 99.4%

## 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

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 36.3% (147 students) [source: crdc_2020]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 7.7%
- **Black/African American**: 0.0%
- **Asian**: 89.1%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 2.5%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 0.7%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 92.4%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 9.7% — 39 students


## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 19 students
- **Developmental Delay**: 13 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 12 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 6 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 6 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 4 students
- **Autism**: 3 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $28,897
- **Federal share**: $8,283
- **State + local share**: $20,614
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $30,761,683
- **Federal share**: 22.2%
- **State share**: 62.1%
- **Local share**: 15.7%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $14,028,547

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $31,938
- **Poverty rate**: 39.2%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 6.0%
- **Unemployment**: 36.6%
- **Foreign-born residents**: 14.3%
- **Single-parent households**: 41.8%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 0.9 miles (OLD AMERICAN ZINC PLANT)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 2
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 28
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.48 miles (VILLA GRIFFIN HOUSING COMPLEX)

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 8.74844 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 4.0 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Wyvetter Younge Sch of Excellence** — 1.0 mi away, 9.65% (this school: 36.3%)
- **Kreitner Elem School** — 3.2 mi away, 29.5% (this school: 36.3%)
- **Caseyville Elementary School** — 3.4 mi away, 20.62% (this school: 36.3%)
- **Madison Jr High School** — 4.2 mi away, 12.06% (this school: 36.3%)
- **Illini Elem School** — 4.3 mi away, 18.89% (this school: 36.3%)

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