# Meridian High School

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `172697002873`
- **School name**: Meridian High School
- **Location**: Mounds, IL 62964
- **Address**: 1401 Mounds Rd
- **District**: Meridian CUSD 101 (LEAID `1726970`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 6–12
- **Coordinates**: 37.13042, -89.16922
- **Phone**: (618)342-6778
- **Wikidata QID**: Q6819317 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meridian_High_School_(Mounds,_Illinois)

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 206
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 14
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 14.7:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 98.5%

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (IL IAR)**: 4.3% proficient
- **Math (IL IAR)**: 1.4% proficient
- **Science (IL IAR)**: 20.4% proficient

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 81.6% (cohort of 38)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 35

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 62.0% (93 students) [source: crdc_2020]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 23
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 0.0%
- **Black/African American**: 0.0%
- **Asian**: 65.0%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 26.4%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 8.6%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 98.6%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 42.9% — 64 students


## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 9 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 2 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 1 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $23,124
- **Federal share**: $4,069
- **State + local share**: $19,054
### 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
- **Meridian Elementary School** — 0.0 mi away, 44.37% (this school: 62%)
- **Cairo Jr/Sr High School** — 7.7 mi away, 2.31% (this school: 62%)
- **Cairo Elementary School** — 8.2 mi away, 6.55% (this school: 62%)
- **Century Jr/Sr High School** — 10.4 mi away, 21.03% (this school: 62%)
- **Century Elementary School** — 10.5 mi away, 19.87% (this school: 62%)

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