# Kerkstra Elem School

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `171548001862`
- **School name**: Kerkstra Elem School
- **Location**: Oak Forest, IL 60452
- **Address**: 14950 Laramie Ave
- **District**: Forest Ridge SD 142 (LEAID `1715480`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 1–5
- **Coordinates**: 41.62010, -87.74730
- **Phone**: (708)687-2860

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 407
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 29
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 14.0:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 43.7%

## 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 22.6% (88 students) [source: crdc_2020]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 1
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 23.8%
- **Black/African American**: 2.1%
- **Asian**: 10.1%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 58.3%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 5.7%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 41.8%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 14.8% — 58 students


## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 22 students
- **Developmental Delay**: 11 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 9 students
- **Autism**: 6 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 3 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 2 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 1 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 1 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students
- **Traumatic Brain Injury**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $12,941
- **Federal share**: $1,326
- **State + local share**: $11,615
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $17,563,880
- **Federal share**: 11.0%
- **State share**: 46.1%
- **Local share**: 42.8%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $8,268,896

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $89,036
- **Poverty rate**: 4.6%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 27.1%
- **Unemployment**: 4.5%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,623
- **Foreign-born residents**: 5.8%
- **Single-parent households**: 6.6%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 10.1 miles (LAKE CALUMET CLUSTER)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 45
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.68 miles (CHEVY PROPERTY)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: OAK FOREST
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2025-07-02

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 6.88793 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 3.6 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Ridge Early Childhood Center** — 0.1 mi away, 14.49% (this school: 22.56%)
- **Jack Hille Middle School** — 0.8 mi away, 13.92% (this school: 22.56%)
- **Lee R Foster Elem School** — 1.0 mi away, 14.5% (this school: 22.56%)
- **Scarlet Oak Elementary School** — 1.1 mi away, 14.1% (this school: 22.56%)
- **Walter F Fierke Ed Center** — 1.8 mi away, 11.44% (this school: 22.56%)

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