# Jefferson Elem School

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

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `174231004255`
- **School name**: Jefferson Elem School
- **Location**: Sterling, IL 61081
- **Address**: 806 E Le Fevre Rd
- **District**: Sterling CUSD 5 (LEAID `1742310`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Coordinates**: 41.80210, -89.68500
- **Phone**: (815)625-6402

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 450
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 30
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 15.0:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 69.6%

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 6.6% (24 students) [source: crdc_2020]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.3%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 32.6%
- **Black/African American**: 1.4%
- **Asian**: 1.7%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 57.1%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 6.9%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 56.2%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 10.6% — 38 students


## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Developmental Delay**: 39 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 27 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 6 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 5 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 3 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 2 students
- **Autism**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $14,833
- **Federal share**: $1,961
- **State + local share**: $12,872
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $18,986,886
- **Federal share**: 13.3%
- **State share**: 42.1%
- **Local share**: 44.5%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $8,304,056

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $56,315
- **Poverty rate**: 24.0%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 19.5%
- **Unemployment**: 2.9%
- **Median gross rent**: $849
- **Foreign-born residents**: 3.0%
- **Single-parent households**: 30.7%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 27.8 miles (BYRON SALVAGE YARD)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 22
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.65 miles (LUMBER OFF LOADING FACILITY)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: STERLING STEEL
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Lincoln Elem School** — 0.5 mi away, 6.32% (this school: 6.63%)
- **Rock Falls Township High School** — 1.9 mi away, 2.87% (this school: 6.63%)
- **East Coloma - Nelson Elem Sch** — 2.1 mi away, 6.25% (this school: 6.63%)
- **Centennial Elem School** — 13.8 mi away, 6.5% (this school: 6.63%)

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