# John Hersey High School

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Full profile (human-readable): https://us.il.whatschool.ai/en/il/school/john-hersey-high-school-arlington-heights

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `170417000113`
- **School name**: John Hersey High School
- **Location**: Arlington Heights, IL 60004
- **Address**: 1900 E Thomas St
- **District**: Township HSD 214 (LEAID `1704170`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 42.10378, -87.95938
- **Phone**: (847)718-4800
- **Wikidata QID**: Q6239104 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hersey_High_School
- **Founded**: 1968

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 2,040
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 123
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 16.6:1

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2025
- **Overall (IL Report Card)**: 82.0% proficient

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 96.4% (cohort of 521)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 826

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 4.7% (93 students) [source: crdc_2020]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.1%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 15.5%
- **Black/African American**: 10.1%
- **Asian**: 1.3%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 70.0%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.1%
- **Two or more races**: 2.8%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 10.8% — 214 students


## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 91 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 45 students
- **Autism**: 32 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 28 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 11 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 7 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 4 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 1 students
- **Traumatic Brain Injury**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $23,198
- **Federal share**: $1,031
- **State + local share**: $22,167
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $30,391,121
- **Federal share**: 3.9%
- **State share**: 21.3%
- **Local share**: 74.8%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $14,985,256

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $94,583
- **Poverty rate**: 6.9%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 51.5%
- **Unemployment**: 2.9%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,491
- **Foreign-born residents**: 23.9%
- **Single-parent households**: 13.9%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 15.3 miles (WAUCONDA SAND GRAVEL)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 71
- **Nearest brownfield**: 5.42 miles (DESPLAINES RAND AND PINE ROAD PROPERTY)

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

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 7.25566 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 5.8 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Thomas Middle School** — 1.0 mi away, 2.44% (this school: 4.7%)
- **Olive-Mary Stitt School** — 1.1 mi away, 3.6% (this school: 4.7%)
- **Ivy Hill Elem School** — 1.1 mi away, 3.62% (this school: 4.7%)
- **Windsor Elementary School** — 1.4 mi away, 2.76% (this school: 4.7%)
- **Prospect High School** — 1.8 mi away, 4.22% (this school: 4.7%)

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