# Mather High School

*Machine-readable school profile — served at https://us.il.whatschool.ai/en/il/school/mather-high-school-chicago/llm*

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `170993000977`
- **School name**: Mather High School
- **Location**: Chicago, IL 60659
- **Address**: 5835 N Lincoln Ave
- **District**: Chicago Public Schools Dist 299 (LEAID `1709930`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 41.98810, -87.70140
- **Phone**: (773)534-2350
- **Wikidata QID**: Q7610724 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mather_High_School
- **Founded**: 1959

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 1,777
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 121
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 14.7:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 78.4%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: IL Report Card
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Targeted
- **Indicators**:
  - overall: Targeted

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2025
- **Overall (IL Report Card)**: 50.0% proficient

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 76.1% (cohort of 435)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 624

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 43.2% (779 students) [source: crdc_2020]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.5%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 44.3%
- **Black/African American**: 24.3%
- **Asian**: 15.2%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 13.8%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.6%
- **Two or more races**: 1.4%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 81.3%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 15.9% — 287 students


## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 144 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 39 students
- **Autism**: 33 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 17 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 8 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 4 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 2 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students
- **Traumatic Brain Injury**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $16,423
- **Federal share**: $2,913
- **State + local share**: $13,510
### 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**: $101,250
- **Poverty rate**: 8.7%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 63.1%
- **Unemployment**: 6.6%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,675
- **Foreign-born residents**: 30.0%
- **Single-parent households**: 1.0%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 21.9 miles (ACME STEEL COKE PLANT)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 1
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 147
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.36 miles (RONAN PARK EXPANSION 2954 W LAWRENCE)

### 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**: 7.2087 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 2.9 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Jamieson Elem School** — 0.3 mi away, 7.13% (this school: 43.16%)
- **Clinton Elem School** — 0.4 mi away, 13.88% (this school: 43.16%)
- **Northside College Preparatory Hs** — 0.6 mi away, 14.41% (this school: 43.16%)
- **Peterson Elem School** — 0.7 mi away, 12.56% (this school: 43.16%)
- **Budlong Elem School** — 0.9 mi away, 9.25% (this school: 43.16%)

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