# McDade Elem Classical School

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `170993000957`
- **School name**: McDade Elem Classical School
- **Location**: Chicago, IL 60619
- **Address**: 8801 S Indiana Ave
- **District**: Chicago Public Schools Dist 299 (LEAID `1709930`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–8
- **Coordinates**: 41.73440, -87.61880
- **Phone**: (773)535-3669

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 207
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 12
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 17.2:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 36.2%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2025
- **Overall (IL Report Card)**: 82.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 5.0% (9 students) [source: crdc_2020]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.6%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 1.1%
- **Black/African American**: 2.2%
- **Asian**: 90.6%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 1.1%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 4.4%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 37.8%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 2.8% — 5 students


## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Other Health Impairment**: 4 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 1 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $19,624
- **Federal share**: $2,835
- **State + local share**: $16,789
### 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**: $56,989
- **Poverty rate**: 21.4%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 36.3%
- **Unemployment**: 7.5%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,208
- **Foreign-born residents**: 5.5%
- **Single-parent households**: 21.7%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 4.3 miles (ACME STEEL COKE PLANT)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 4
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 61
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.18 miles (WHITNEY YOUNG LIBRARY EXPANSION)

### 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**: 7.10667 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 5.0 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Lenart Elem Regional Gifted Ctr** — 1.0 mi away, 2.54% (this school: 4.97%)
- **Poe Elem Classical School** — 2.3 mi away, 2.53% (this school: 4.97%)
- **Keller Elem Gifted Magnet School** — 4.8 mi away, 2.76% (this school: 4.97%)
- **Mount Greenwood Elem School** — 5.2 mi away, 4.14% (this school: 4.97%)
- **Calumet Elem School** — 5.5 mi away, 2.5% (this school: 4.97%)

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