# Jefferson High School

*Machine-readable school profile — served at https://us.il.whatschool.ai/en/il/school/jefferson-high-school-rockford/llm*

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

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `173451003585`
- **School name**: Jefferson High School
- **Location**: Rockford, IL 61109
- **Address**: 4145 Samuelson Rd
- **District**: Rockford SD 205 (LEAID `1734510`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 42.20700, -89.03880
- **Phone**: (815)874-9536
- **Wikidata QID**: Q7791265 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson_High_School_(Rockford,_Illinois)
- **Founded**: 1969

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 2,173
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 110
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 19.8:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 70.0%

## 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

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 74.7% (cohort of 466)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 322

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 81.0% (1,604 students) [source: crdc_2020]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 16
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.1%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 51.7%
- **Black/African American**: 2.9%
- **Asian**: 19.4%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 20.9%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 4.9%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 75.2%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 14.9% — 294 students


## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 141 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 33 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 31 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 30 students
- **Autism**: 17 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 4 students
- **Traumatic Brain Injury**: 2 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $14,365
- **Federal share**: $1,068
- **State + local share**: $13,298
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $21,458,258
- **Federal share**: 13.0%
- **State share**: 49.1%
- **Local share**: 38.0%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $10,279,046

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $90,985
- **Poverty rate**: 9.0%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 26.2%
- **Unemployment**: 3.0%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,080
- **Foreign-born residents**: 5.4%
- **Single-parent households**: 7.9%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 2.3 miles (SOUTHEAST ROCKFORD GROUND WATER CONTAMINATION)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 2
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 73
- **Nearest brownfield**: 3.21 miles (FORMER ROCKFORD PRODUCTS)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: ROCKFORD
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2024-10-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 7.36768 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 4.9 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Arthur Froberg Elem School** — 1.2 mi away, 36.95% (this school: 81.05%)
- **Swan Hillman Elem School** — 1.9 mi away, 39.75% (this school: 81.05%)
- **Bernard W Flinn Middle School** — 2.3 mi away, 76.08% (this school: 81.05%)
- **Whitehead Elem School** — 2.5 mi away, 52.71% (this school: 81.05%)
- **Riverdahl Elem School** — 2.6 mi away, 55.63% (this school: 81.05%)

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