# Meridian High School

*Machine-readable school profile — served at https://us.il.whatschool.ai/en/il/school/meridian-high-school-macon/llm*

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `170012300873`
- **School name**: Meridian High School
- **Location**: Macon, IL 62544
- **Address**: 728 S Wall St
- **District**: Meridian CUSD 15 (LEAID `1700123`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 39.70263, -88.99685
- **Phone**: (217)764-5233
- **Wikidata QID**: Q6819320 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meridian_High_School_(Macon,_Illinois)
- **Founded**: 1994

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 287
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 23
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 12.5:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 43.6%

## 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**: 92.9% (cohort of 85)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 70

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 30.5% (90 students) [source: crdc_2020]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 6
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 2.8%
- **Black/African American**: 0.0%
- **Asian**: 0.7%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 94.0%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 2.5%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 36.5%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 0.7% — 2 students


## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 14 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 5 students
- **Autism**: 2 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 2 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $12,438
- **Federal share**: $534
- **State + local share**: $11,904
### 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**: $81,538
- **Poverty rate**: 3.7%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 23.0%
- **Unemployment**: 1.7%
- **Median gross rent**: $787
- **Foreign-born residents**: 0.4%
- **Single-parent households**: 3.4%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 19.5 miles (CENTRAL ILLINOIS PUBLIC SERVICE CO)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 0
- **Nearest brownfield**: 9.34 miles (MUELLER PARK AREA)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: MACON
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2023-10-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 7.55308 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 12.0 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Meridian Middle School** — 0.0 mi away, 24% (this school: 30.51%)
- **Central A & M High School** — 5.0 mi away, 1.73% (this school: 30.51%)
- **Gregory Intermediate** — 5.0 mi away, 7.26% (this school: 30.51%)
- **Meridian Elem School** — 6.7 mi away, 20.17% (this school: 30.51%)
- **McGaughey Elem School** — 7.7 mi away, 1.09% (this school: 30.51%)

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