# Meridian Elem School

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `170012300877`
- **School name**: Meridian Elem School
- **Location**: Blue Mound, IL 62513
- **Address**: 509 S Lewis St
- **District**: Meridian CUSD 15 (LEAID `1700123`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Coordinates**: 39.69476, -89.12185
- **Phone**: (217)692-2535

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 460
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 31
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 14.8:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 48.0%

## 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 20.2% (93 students) [source: crdc_2020]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.4%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 1.7%
- **Black/African American**: 0.0%
- **Asian**: 0.6%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 93.1%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 4.1%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 39.8%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 1.5% — 7 students


## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 17 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 13 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 4 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 4 students
- **Autism**: 2 students
- **Developmental Delay**: 2 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 2 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $10,435
- **Federal share**: $1,291
- **State + local share**: $9,145
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $15,496,881
- **Federal share**: 9.7%
- **State share**: 43.3%
- **Local share**: 47.0%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $7,492,723

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $77,794
- **Poverty rate**: 5.8%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 28.3%
- **Unemployment**: 3.9%
- **Median gross rent**: $935
- **Foreign-born residents**: 0.8%
- **Single-parent households**: 14.2%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 14.2 miles (CENTRAL ILLINOIS PUBLIC SERVICE CO)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 0
- **Nearest brownfield**: 13.18 miles (MUELLER PARK AREA)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: BLUE MOUND
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 14
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 12
- **Most recent violation**: 2025-10-12

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 7.55308 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 15.8 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Gregory Intermediate** — 7.0 mi away, 7.26% (this school: 20.17%)
- **Central A & M High School** — 7.1 mi away, 1.73% (this school: 20.17%)
- **Sangamon Valley Primary School** — 11.0 mi away, 0.65% (this school: 20.17%)
- **Sangamon Valley High School** — 11.4 mi away, 9.41% (this school: 20.17%)
- **Sangamon Valley Middle School** — 12.6 mi away, 14.72% (this school: 20.17%)

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