# Mercer County High School

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `170139500018`
- **School name**: Mercer County High School
- **Location**: Aledo, IL 61231
- **Address**: 1500 S College Ave
- **District**: Mercer County School District 404 (LEAID `1701395`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 41.18952, -90.75003
- **Phone**: (309)582-2223
- **Wikidata QID**: Q6818275 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercer_County_High_School_(Illinois)
- **Founded**: 2009

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 411
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 31
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 13.3:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 41.6%

## 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**: 80.0% (cohort of 95)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 85

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 27.2% (106 students) [source: crdc_2020]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 3
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.5%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 2.3%
- **Black/African American**: 0.8%
- **Asian**: 1.0%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 94.1%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 1.3%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 40.1%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 15.1% — 59 students


## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 19 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 11 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 8 students
- **Autism**: 4 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 4 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 2 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $15,530
- **Federal share**: $1,968
- **State + local share**: $13,562
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $17,571,317
- **Federal share**: 8.3%
- **State share**: 38.0%
- **Local share**: 53.6%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $8,177,708

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $62,000
- **Poverty rate**: 10.3%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 22.6%
- **Unemployment**: 1.6%
- **Median gross rent**: $772
- **Foreign-born residents**: 0.8%
- **Single-parent households**: 13.7%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 27.4 miles (GALESBURG KOPPERS CO)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 1
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 4
- **Nearest brownfield**: 19.87 miles (FORMER MONMOUTH CITY HALL)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: ALEDO
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2020-09-01

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Apollo Elem School** — 0.6 mi away, 23.49% (this school: 27.18%)
- **Mercer County Jr High School** — 0.7 mi away, 21.7% (this school: 27.18%)
- **Winola Elementary School** — 8.9 mi away, 18.39% (this school: 27.18%)
- **New Boston Elem School** — 12.7 mi away, 20.24% (this school: 27.18%)
- **United Elem Sch - North** — 13.1 mi away, 8.19% (this school: 27.18%)

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