# Mercer County Jr High School

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `170139506040`
- **School name**: Mercer County Jr High School
- **Location**: Aledo, IL 61231
- **Address**: 1002 Sw 6Th St
- **District**: Mercer County School District 404 (LEAID `1701395`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Coordinates**: 41.19679, -90.75994
- **Phone**: (309)584-4174

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 270
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 23
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 11.7:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 49.6%

## 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

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 21.7% (46 students) [source: crdc_2020]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 4
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 4.2%
- **Black/African American**: 0.0%
- **Asian**: 0.5%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 92.5%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 2.8%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 43.8%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 18.4% — 39 students


## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 15 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 11 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 3 students
- **Autism**: 1 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $15,154
- **Federal share**: $1,968
- **State + local share**: $13,186
### 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)**: 28.1 miles (GALESBURG KOPPERS CO)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 1
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 4
- **Nearest brownfield**: 20.49 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
- **Winola Elementary School** — 9.4 mi away, 18.39% (this school: 21.7%)
- **New Boston Elem School** — 12.2 mi away, 20.24% (this school: 21.7%)
- **Rockridge Jr High School** — 13.1 mi away, 6.58% (this school: 21.7%)
- **United Elem Sch - North** — 13.8 mi away, 8.19% (this school: 21.7%)
- **Taylor Ridge Elem School** — 14.0 mi away, 2.08% (this school: 21.7%)

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