# Merrill Elem School

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `173435003522`
- **School name**: Merrill Elem School
- **Location**: Rock Falls, IL 61071
- **Address**: 600 4th Ave
- **District**: Rock Falls ESD 13 (LEAID `1734350`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 3–5
- **Coordinates**: 41.77678, -89.69194
- **Phone**: (815)625-4634

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 258
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 19
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 13.6:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 77.9%

## 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 27.2% (68 students) [source: crdc_2020]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 2
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 1.2%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 30.2%
- **Black/African American**: 0.8%
- **Asian**: 3.7%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 57.9%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 6.2%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 77.0%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 29.8% — 74 students


## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 23 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 10 students
- **Developmental Delay**: 8 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 7 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 6 students
- **Autism**: 3 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 3 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $11,791
- **Federal share**: $1,471
- **State + local share**: $10,320
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $21,128,000
- **Federal share**: 19.1%
- **State share**: 58.6%
- **Local share**: 22.3%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $9,808,000

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $48,862
- **Poverty rate**: 11.3%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 17.0%
- **Unemployment**: 6.0%
- **Median gross rent**: $820
- **Foreign-born residents**: 0.9%
- **Single-parent households**: 21.5%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 29.3 miles (BYRON SALVAGE YARD)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 6
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 22
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.30 miles (NORTHWEST STEEL AND WIRE)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: ROCK FALLS
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2023-07-01

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Rock Falls Township High School** — 0.7 mi away, 2.87% (this school: 27.2%)
- **East Coloma - Nelson Elem Sch** — 1.4 mi away, 6.25% (this school: 27.2%)
- **Lincoln Elem School** — 1.6 mi away, 6.32% (this school: 27.2%)
- **Jefferson Elem School** — 1.8 mi away, 6.63% (this school: 27.2%)
- **Sterling High School** — 1.8 mi away, 21.4% (this school: 27.2%)

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