# MacArthur High School

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `171185001411`
- **School name**: MacArthur High School
- **Location**: Decatur, IL 62523
- **Address**: 300 E Eldorado St
- **District**: Decatur SD 61 (LEAID `1711850`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 39.85323, -88.97959
- **Phone**: (217)362-3152
- **Wikidata QID**: Q6721724 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacArthur_High_School_(Decatur,_Illinois)

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 1,059
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 53
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 20.0:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 73.0%

## 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

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 78.3% (cohort of 300)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 202

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 72.5% (852 students) [source: crdc_2020]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.1%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 5.7%
- **Black/African American**: 0.5%
- **Asian**: 46.9%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 34.1%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 12.7%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 55.5%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 12.9% — 152 students


## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 67 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 46 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 23 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 7 students
- **Autism**: 4 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 2 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 2 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 1 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $14,990
- **Federal share**: $507
- **State + local share**: $14,483
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $19,130,993
- **Federal share**: 21.4%
- **State share**: 43.3%
- **Local share**: 35.3%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $6,898,547

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $60,898
- **Poverty rate**: 20.1%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 21.8%
- **Unemployment**: 6.5%
- **Median gross rent**: $924
- **Foreign-born residents**: 0.5%
- **Single-parent households**: 5.5%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 27.4 miles (CENTRAL ILLINOIS PUBLIC SERVICE CO)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 25
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.15 miles (NAZ THRIFT STORE)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: DECATUR
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2023-10-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 7.55308 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 3.0 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Franklin Grove Elem School** — 1.1 mi away, 66.12% (this school: 72.45%)
- **Johns Hill Magnet School** — 2.2 mi away, 30.96% (this school: 72.45%)
- **Parsons Elementary School** — 2.4 mi away, 64.72% (this school: 72.45%)
- **American Dreamer STEM Academy** — 2.6 mi away, 32.11% (this school: 72.45%)
- **Dennis Lab School** — 2.8 mi away, 58.9% (this school: 72.45%)

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