# Meridian Elementary School

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `172697002874`
- **School name**: Meridian Elementary School
- **Location**: Mounds, IL 62964
- **Address**: 1401 Mounds Rd
- **District**: Meridian CUSD 101 (LEAID `1726970`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Coordinates**: 37.13042, -89.16922
- **Phone**: (618)342-6778

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 213
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 20
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 10.7:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 95.3%

## 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 44.4% (138 students) [source: crdc_2020]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 12
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 0.0%
- **Black/African American**: 0.0%
- **Asian**: 62.2%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 30.1%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 7.7%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 93.5%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 70.6% — 219 students


## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 32 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 12 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 8 students
- **Developmental Delay**: 7 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 7 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 4 students
- **Autism**: 2 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $23,450
- **Federal share**: $5,369
- **State + local share**: $18,081
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $26,560,268
- **Federal share**: 32.7%
- **State share**: 52.6%
- **Local share**: 14.8%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $11,325,893

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $50,000
- **Poverty rate**: 23.8%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 7.9%
- **Unemployment**: 2.2%
- **Median gross rent**: $697
- **Foreign-born residents**: 1.2%
- **Single-parent households**: 14.9%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 19.7 miles (PADUCAH GASEOUS DIFFUSION PLANT USDOE)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 1
- **Nearest brownfield**: 7.95 miles (BURKART FOAM)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: MOUNDS
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2025-01-01

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Cairo Jr/Sr High School** — 7.7 mi away, 2.31% (this school: 44.37%)
- **Cairo Elementary School** — 8.2 mi away, 6.55% (this school: 44.37%)
- **Century Jr/Sr High School** — 10.4 mi away, 21.03% (this school: 44.37%)
- **Century Elementary School** — 10.5 mi away, 19.87% (this school: 44.37%)
- **Ballard County Elementary School** — 10.8 mi away, 21.06% (this school: 44.37%)

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