# James Hart School

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `171953002230`
- **School name**: James Hart School
- **Location**: Homewood, IL 60430
- **Address**: 18220 Morgan St
- **District**: Homewood SD 153 (LEAID `1719530`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Coordinates**: 41.55876, -87.64235
- **Phone**: (708)799-5544

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 681
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 61
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 11.2:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 46.7%

## 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 17.0% (122 students) [source: crdc_2020]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 4
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.1%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 12.1%
- **Black/African American**: 0.4%
- **Asian**: 57.3%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 22.7%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 7.4%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 44.2%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 15.5% — 112 students


## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 30 students
- **Autism**: 12 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 12 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 4 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 3 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 2 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $16,535
- **Federal share**: $621
- **State + local share**: $15,914
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $19,358,076
- **Federal share**: 5.8%
- **State share**: 42.0%
- **Local share**: 52.2%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $9,881,861

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $60,179
- **Poverty rate**: 19.3%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 36.6%
- **Unemployment**: 11.6%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,320
- **Foreign-born residents**: 4.8%
- **Single-parent households**: 15.8%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 7.7 miles (ESTECH GENERAL CHEMICAL COMPANY)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 2
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 62
- **Nearest brownfield**: 2.50 miles (320 22 E 14TH ST TEN CAR GARAGE)

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

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 7.81133 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 4.6 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Willow School** — 0.9 mi away, 14.87% (this school: 16.99%)
- **Winston Churchill School** — 1.0 mi away, 11.93% (this school: 16.99%)
- **Western Avenue Elem School** — 2.0 mi away, 10.4% (this school: 16.99%)
- **Brookwood Jr High School** — 2.2 mi away, 6.49% (this school: 16.99%)
- **Thornwood High School** — 2.6 mi away, 6.37% (this school: 16.99%)

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