# Lincoln-Way Central High School

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `172307002543`
- **School name**: Lincoln-Way Central High School
- **Location**: New Lenox, IL 60451
- **Address**: 1801 E Lincoln Hwy
- **District**: Lincoln Way CHSD 210 (LEAID `1723070`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 41.51310, -87.92970
- **Phone**: (815)462-2172
- **Wikidata QID**: Q14687791 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln-Way_Central_High_School
- **Founded**: 1954

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 1,991
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 131
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 15.2:1

## 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**: 95.9% (cohort of 486)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 492

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 2.3% (45 students) [source: crdc_2020]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 2
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.1%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 11.2%
- **Black/African American**: 1.6%
- **Asian**: 1.6%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 83.6%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 2.0%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 12.8% — 255 students


## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 93 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 57 students
- **Autism**: 30 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 20 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 17 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 7 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 6 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 3 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 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**: $16,152
- **Federal share**: $551
- **State + local share**: $15,601
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $23,831,058
- **Federal share**: 2.0%
- **State share**: 22.6%
- **Local share**: 75.4%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $10,272,318

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $144,300
- **Poverty rate**: 1.1%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 46.6%
- **Unemployment**: 3.0%
- **Foreign-born residents**: 1.3%
- **Single-parent households**: 6.0%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 12.7 miles (JOLIET ARMY AMMUNITION PLANT LOAD ASSEMBLY PACKING AREA)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 10
- **Nearest brownfield**: 7.59 miles (JCC EAST SIDE FIRING RANGE)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: NEW LENOX
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 7.83138 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 9.7 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Arbury Hills Elem School** — 4.5 mi away, 1.2% (this school: 2.26%)
- **Frankfort Square Elem School** — 6.6 mi away, 2.06% (this school: 2.26%)
- **River Valley School** — 10.6 mi away, 0.39% (this school: 2.26%)
- **Oakwood School** — 10.7 mi away, 2.15% (this school: 2.26%)

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