# McGaughey Elem School

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Full profile (human-readable): https://us.il.whatschool.ai/en/il/school/mcgaughey-elem-school-mount-zion

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `172739002907`
- **School name**: McGaughey Elem School
- **Location**: Mount Zion, IL 62549
- **Address**: 1320 W Main St
- **District**: Mt Zion CUSD 3 (LEAID `1727390`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Coordinates**: 39.77791, -88.88948
- **Phone**: (217)864-2711

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 371
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 21
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 17.7:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 38.8%

## 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 1.1% (4 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**: 1.1%
- **Black/African American**: 1.6%
- **Asian**: 2.2%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 92.9%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.3%
- **Two or more races**: 1.9%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 36.1%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 14.0% — 51 students


## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 16 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 10 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 7 students
- **Developmental Delay**: 2 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 2 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 2 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $11,408
- **Federal share**: $794
- **State + local share**: $10,614
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $13,949,854
- **Federal share**: 8.8%
- **State share**: 45.6%
- **Local share**: 45.6%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $7,425,407

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $107,533
- **Poverty rate**: 3.1%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 29.9%
- **Unemployment**: 1.8%
- **Median gross rent**: $693
- **Foreign-born residents**: 1.3%
- **Single-parent households**: 6.9%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 27.2 miles (CENTRAL ILLINOIS PUBLIC SERVICE CO)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 1
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 3
- **Nearest brownfield**: 4.79 miles (FORMER WAGNER CASTINGS INTERMET FOUNDRY SITE)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: MOUNT ZION
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 48
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2024-10-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 7.55308 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 6.4 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Sangamon Valley Primary School** — 11.6 mi away, 0.65% (this school: 1.09%)

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