# Locke A Elem Charter Academy

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `170993003564`
- **School name**: Locke A Elem Charter Academy
- **Location**: Chicago, IL 60612
- **Address**: 3141 W Jackson Blvd
- **District**: Chicago Public Schools Dist 299 (LEAID `1709930`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–8
- **Charter school**: Yes
- **Coordinates**: 41.87710, -87.70500
- **Phone**: (773)265-7232

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 346
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 24
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 14.4:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 87.0%

## 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 37.0% (164 students) [source: crdc_2020]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 0.5%
- **Black/African American**: 0.0%
- **Asian**: 99.5%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 0.0%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 0.0%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 90.5%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 13.5% — 60 students


## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 22 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 8 students
- **Developmental Delay**: 5 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 2 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $24,360
- **Federal share**: $1,667
- **State + local share**: $22,693
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $25,576,784
- **Federal share**: 17.4%
- **State share**: 29.9%
- **Local share**: 52.8%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $13,747,371

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $31,048
- **Poverty rate**: 34.9%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 28.6%
- **Unemployment**: 25.4%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,273
- **Foreign-born residents**: 4.4%
- **Single-parent households**: 29.3%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 15.0 miles (ACME STEEL COKE PLANT)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 4
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 323
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.12 miles (407 N KEDZIE)

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

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 7.46167 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 2.4 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Jensen Elem Scholastic Academy** — 0.3 mi away, 34.39% (this school: 37.02%)
- **LEARN Chtr-Campbell Campus** — 0.3 mi away, 15.42% (this school: 37.02%)
- **Kellman Corporate Community Elem** — 0.5 mi away, 19.44% (this school: 37.02%)
- **Manley Career Academy High School** — 0.5 mi away, 31.97% (this school: 37.02%)
- **Ericson Elem Scholastic Academy** — 0.6 mi away, 32.22% (this school: 37.02%)

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