# Maine West High School

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `172409005032`
- **School name**: Maine West High School
- **Location**: Des Plaines, IL 60018
- **Address**: 1755 S Wolf Rd
- **District**: Maine Township HSD 207 (LEAID `1724090`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 42.02100, -87.90690
- **Phone**: (847)827-6176
- **Wikidata QID**: Q6736537 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maine_West_High_School
- **Founded**: 1959

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 1,857
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 123
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 15.1:1

## 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**: 84.0% (cohort of 468)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 1,009

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 31.6% (641 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**: 41.8%
- **Black/African American**: 11.1%
- **Asian**: 3.4%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 41.9%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.2%
- **Two or more races**: 1.5%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 14.1% — 285 students


## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 155 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 48 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 46 students
- **Autism**: 31 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 13 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 7 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 2 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $24,915
- **Federal share**: $1,802
- **State + local share**: $23,113
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $33,492,818
- **Federal share**: 2.7%
- **State share**: 21.8%
- **Local share**: 75.5%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $16,840,884

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $85,913
- **Poverty rate**: 3.8%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 17.5%
- **Unemployment**: 5.6%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,148
- **Foreign-born residents**: 53.5%
- **Single-parent households**: 6.8%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 18.3 miles (KERR MCGEE RESIDENTIAL AREAS)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 13
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 195
- **Nearest brownfield**: 2.13 miles (DESPLAINES RAND AND PINE ROAD PROPERTY)

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

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 7.25566 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 3.5 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Plainfield Elem School** — 0.3 mi away, 17.12% (this school: 31.64%)
- **Forest Elem School** — 0.5 mi away, 4.98% (this school: 31.64%)
- **Algonquin Middle School** — 0.6 mi away, 21.37% (this school: 31.64%)
- **Devonshire School** — 1.1 mi away, 6.12% (this school: 31.64%)
- **South Elem School** — 1.1 mi away, 7.88% (this school: 31.64%)

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