# Lee R Foster Elem School

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `171548001863`
- **School name**: Lee R Foster Elem School
- **Location**: Oak Forest, IL 60452
- **Address**: 5931 School St
- **District**: Forest Ridge SD 142 (LEAID `1715480`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 1–5
- **Coordinates**: 41.61420, -87.76440
- **Phone**: (708)687-4763

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 397
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 28
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 14.2:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 48.6%

## 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 14.5% (58 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**: 27.8%
- **Black/African American**: 3.3%
- **Asian**: 8.9%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 56.6%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.3%
- **Two or more races**: 3.1%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 49.0%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 14.3% — 57 students


## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 14 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 11 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 9 students
- **Autism**: 7 students
- **Developmental Delay**: 6 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 3 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 2 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $12,964
- **Federal share**: $1,012
- **State + local share**: $11,952
### 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**: $119,799
- **Poverty rate**: 4.0%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 32.9%
- **Unemployment**: 4.1%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,186
- **Foreign-born residents**: 7.3%
- **Single-parent households**: 7.8%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 11.1 miles (LAKE CALUMET CLUSTER)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 44
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.64 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**: 4.3 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Jack Hille Middle School** — 0.3 mi away, 13.92% (this school: 14.5%)
- **Scarlet Oak Elementary School** — 0.5 mi away, 14.1% (this school: 14.5%)
- **Walter F Fierke Ed Center** — 0.8 mi away, 11.44% (this school: 14.5%)
- **Ridge Early Childhood Center** — 1.1 mi away, 14.49% (this school: 14.5%)
- **Kimberly Heights Elem School** — 1.7 mi away, 8.23% (this school: 14.5%)

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