# Jefferson Elem School

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Full profile (human-readable): https://us.il.whatschool.ai/en/il/school/jefferson-elem-school-ottawa

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `173030003136`
- **School name**: Jefferson Elem School
- **Location**: Ottawa, IL 61350
- **Address**: 1709 Columbus St
- **District**: Ottawa ESD 141 (LEAID `1730300`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Coordinates**: 41.35717, -88.84174
- **Phone**: (815)434-0726

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 304
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 22
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 13.8:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 64.8%

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (IL IAR)**: 40.8% proficient
- **Math (IL IAR)**: 31.6% proficient

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 21.1% (60 students) [source: crdc_2020]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.8%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 21.1%
- **Black/African American**: 0.4%
- **Asian**: 5.6%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 64.5%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 7.6%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 65.4%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 23.5% — 67 students


## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 32 students
- **Developmental Delay**: 15 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 10 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 5 students
- **Autism**: 2 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 2 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 1 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $16,818
- **Federal share**: $1,087
- **State + local share**: $15,731
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $20,638,431
- **Federal share**: 11.4%
- **State share**: 39.0%
- **Local share**: 49.6%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $9,254,122

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $68,050
- **Poverty rate**: 17.9%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 14.4%
- **Unemployment**: 9.3%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,088
- **Foreign-born residents**: 4.2%
- **Single-parent households**: 20.4%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 0.5 miles (OTTAWA RADIATION AREAS)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 1
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 5
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.07 miles (FORMER AUTO MAX MUFFLER BRAKE 102 W NORRIS DR)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: OTTAWA
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 6
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2025-10-01

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Lincoln Elem School** — 1.1 mi away, 8.05% (this school: 21.05%)
- **McKinley Elem School** — 2.2 mi away, 10.86% (this school: 21.05%)
- **Shepherd Middle School** — 2.4 mi away, 17.26% (this school: 21.05%)
- **Central Intermediate School** — 2.5 mi away, 17.83% (this school: 21.05%)
- **Wallace Elem School** — 4.3 mi away, 6.63% (this school: 21.05%)

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