# Lynne Thigpen Elem School

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `172058005731`
- **School name**: Lynne Thigpen Elem School
- **Location**: Joliet, IL 60436
- **Address**: 207 S Midland Ave
- **District**: Joliet PSD 86 (LEAID `1720580`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–5
- **Coordinates**: 41.51799, -88.11820
- **Phone**: (815)741-7629

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 620
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 40
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 15.5:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 93.9%

## 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 30.4% (180 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**: 56.0%
- **Black/African American**: 0.5%
- **Asian**: 27.1%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 10.8%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 5.6%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 95.5%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 19.6% — 116 students


## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Developmental Delay**: 26 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 17 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 16 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 14 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 7 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 6 students
- **Autism**: 5 students
- **Traumatic Brain Injury**: 1 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $18,305
- **Federal share**: $2,195
- **State + local share**: $16,110
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $22,006,989
- **Federal share**: 12.5%
- **State share**: 63.0%
- **Local share**: 24.4%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $9,684,056

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $80,172
- **Poverty rate**: 14.2%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 19.4%
- **Unemployment**: 9.5%
- **Foreign-born residents**: 27.8%
- **Single-parent households**: 36.3%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 6.0 miles (AMOCO CHEMICALS JOLIET LANDFILL)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 3
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 43
- **Nearest brownfield**: 3.00 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**: 0.6 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Dirksen Junior High School** — 0.1 mi away, 19.54% (this school: 30.41%)
- **Pershing Elem School** — 0.6 mi away, 25.65% (this school: 30.41%)
- **Thomas Jefferson Elem School** — 1.7 mi away, 17.69% (this school: 30.41%)
- **Taft Elementary School** — 1.8 mi away, 17.54% (this school: 30.41%)
- **Hufford Junior High School** — 1.8 mi away, 13.92% (this school: 30.41%)

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