# John Laidlaw Elem School

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Full profile (human-readable): https://us.il.whatschool.ai/en/il/school/john-laidlaw-elem-school-western-springs

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `174182004189`
- **School name**: John Laidlaw Elem School
- **Location**: Western Springs, IL 60558
- **Address**: 4072 Forest Ave
- **District**: Western Springs SD 101 (LEAID `1741820`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–5
- **Coordinates**: 41.81500, -87.90760
- **Phone**: (708)246-7673

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 380
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 31
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 12.3:1

## 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

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.5% (2 students) [source: crdc_2020]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 4.4%
- **Black/African American**: 1.2%
- **Asian**: 0.7%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 90.0%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 3.6%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 0.0%


## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 13 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 7 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 6 students
- **Developmental Delay**: 4 students
- **Autism**: 2 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $15,219
- **Federal share**: $378
- **State + local share**: $14,841
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $19,209,677
- **Federal share**: 6.0%
- **State share**: 26.4%
- **Local share**: 67.7%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $11,198,925

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $235,402
- **Poverty rate**: 1.5%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 78.5%
- **Unemployment**: 3.0%
- **Foreign-born residents**: 3.0%
- **Single-parent households**: 3.1%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 7.7 miles (LENZ OIL SERVICE INC)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 1
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 56
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.95 miles (TRIANGLE PROJECT 7 LAGRANGE MULTI TENANTS)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: WESTERN SPRINGS
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 2
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2025-10-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 8.50493 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 4.0 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Spring Ave Elem School** — 2.2 mi away, 0.31% (this school: 0.47%)
- **River Valley School** — 11.8 mi away, 0.39% (this school: 0.47%)

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