# McKay Elem School

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Full profile (human-readable): https://us.il.whatschool.ai/en/il/school/mckay-elem-school-chicago

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `170993000958`
- **School name**: McKay Elem School
- **Location**: Chicago, IL 60629
- **Address**: 6901 S Fairfield Ave
- **District**: Chicago Public Schools Dist 299 (LEAID `1709930`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Coordinates**: 41.76770, -87.69140
- **Phone**: (773)535-9340

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 616
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 44
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 14.0:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 96.8%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (IL IAR)**: 13.0% proficient
- **Math (IL IAR)**: 6.1% proficient
- **Science (IL IAR)**: 13.1% proficient

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 24.3% (160 students) [source: crdc_2020]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.2%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 24.2%
- **Black/African American**: 0.0%
- **Asian**: 73.4%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 1.5%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.3%
- **Two or more races**: 0.5%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 93.3%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 16.7% — 110 students


## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 46 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 13 students
- **Autism**: 12 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 10 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 7 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 6 students
- **Developmental Delay**: 5 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $18,650
- **Federal share**: $3,427
- **State + local share**: $15,222
### 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**: $45,572
- **Poverty rate**: 33.5%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 6.4%
- **Unemployment**: 15.8%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,165
- **Foreign-born residents**: 18.9%
- **Single-parent households**: 16.9%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 8.7 miles (ACME STEEL COKE PLANT)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 1
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 181
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.85 miles (GREEN DEMOLITION SPECIFICATIONS)

### 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**: 1.6 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Catalyst Charter - Maria ES** — 0.2 mi away, 16.12% (this school: 24.28%)
- **Marquette Elem School** — 0.6 mi away, 17.67% (this school: 24.28%)
- **Tarkington Elem School** — 0.8 mi away, 18.15% (this school: 24.28%)
- **Hurley Elem School** — 1.4 mi away, 15.15% (this school: 24.28%)
- **Joplin Elem School** — 1.7 mi away, 22.9% (this school: 24.28%)

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