# Jefferson Middle School

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

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `170471000173`
- **School name**: Jefferson Middle School
- **Location**: Aurora, IL 60506
- **Address**: 1151 Plum St
- **District**: Aurora West USD 129 (LEAID `1704710`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Coordinates**: 41.76748, -88.34477
- **Phone**: (630)301-5009

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 577
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 46
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 12.5:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 62.2%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: IL Report Card
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Intensive
- **Indicators**:
  - overall: Intensive

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2025
- **Overall (IL Report Card)**: 32.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 14.5% (97 students) [source: crdc_2020]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 6
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 67.1%
- **Black/African American**: 2.9%
- **Asian**: 15.7%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 11.0%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.3%
- **Two or more races**: 3.0%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 64.9%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 12.1% — 81 students


## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 57 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 11 students
- **Autism**: 6 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 6 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 6 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 5 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 3 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 2 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 2 students
- **Traumatic Brain Injury**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $17,064
- **Federal share**: $2,284
- **State + local share**: $14,780
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $20,335,239
- **Federal share**: 10.8%
- **State share**: 37.9%
- **Local share**: 51.3%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $9,427,780

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $74,955
- **Poverty rate**: 21.8%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 13.4%
- **Unemployment**: 7.2%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,434
- **Foreign-born residents**: 28.9%
- **Single-parent households**: 17.1%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 9.6 miles (KERR MCGEE KRESS CREEK WEST BRANCH OF DUPAGE RIVER)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 4
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 47
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.95 miles (KIDDIE CAR)

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

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 7.21014 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 1.4 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **McCleery Elem School** — 0.2 mi away, 12.08% (this school: 14.46%)
- **West Aurora High School** — 0.2 mi away, 2.09% (this school: 14.46%)
- **Greenman Elem School** — 0.6 mi away, 10.25% (this school: 14.46%)
- **Freeman Elem School** — 0.7 mi away, 4.84% (this school: 14.46%)
- **Hill Elem School** — 1.2 mi away, 11.07% (this school: 14.46%)

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