# Joliet West High School

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `172061002352`
- **School name**: Joliet West High School
- **Location**: Joliet, IL 60435
- **Address**: 401 N Larkin Ave
- **District**: Joliet Twp HSD 204 (LEAID `1720610`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 41.52830, -88.12630
- **Phone**: (815)727-6940
- **Wikidata QID**: Q6270004 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joliet_West_High_School
- **Founded**: 1964

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 3,451
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 167
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 20.7:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 59.5%

## 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**: 83.3% (cohort of 860)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 1,403

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 41.4% (1,414 students) [source: crdc_2020]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 8
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.3%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 40.2%
- **Black/African American**: 1.5%
- **Asian**: 22.1%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 32.9%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 3.0%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 58.8%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 8.3% — 285 students


## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 259 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 84 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 55 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 54 students
- **Autism**: 32 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 7 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 5 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 4 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 3 students
- **Traumatic Brain Injury**: 1 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $16,710
- **Federal share**: $1,334
- **State + local share**: $15,376
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $24,934,895
- **Federal share**: 7.7%
- **State share**: 28.6%
- **Local share**: 63.7%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $8,358,580

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $46,159
- **Poverty rate**: 31.0%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 10.8%
- **Unemployment**: 10.8%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,275
- **Foreign-born residents**: 4.1%
- **Single-parent households**: 17.1%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 6.5 miles (AMOCO CHEMICALS JOLIET LANDFILL)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 41
- **Nearest brownfield**: 2.96 miles (JOLIET CORRECTIONAL CENTER EAST SIDE)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: JOLIET
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 1
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2024-10-17

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 7.83138 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 0.5 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Pershing Elem School** — 0.5 mi away, 25.65% (this school: 41.39%)
- **Lynne Thigpen Elem School** — 0.8 mi away, 30.41% (this school: 41.39%)
- **Dirksen Junior High School** — 0.8 mi away, 19.54% (this school: 41.39%)
- **Hufford Junior High School** — 1.0 mi away, 13.92% (this school: 41.39%)
- **Thomas Jefferson Elem School** — 1.1 mi away, 17.69% (this school: 41.39%)

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