# Morton Jr High School

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `172680002865`
- **School name**: Morton Jr High School
- **Location**: Morton, IL 61550
- **Address**: 225 E Jackson St
- **District**: Morton CUSD 709 (LEAID `1726800`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 7–8
- **Coordinates**: 40.61338, -89.45551
- **Phone**: (309)266-6522

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 504
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 38
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 13.3:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 15.9%

## 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 11.8% (60 students) [source: crdc_2020]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 3.6%
- **Black/African American**: 3.0%
- **Asian**: 1.8%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 89.4%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 2.2%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 17.8%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 13.0% — 66 students


## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 31 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 10 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 9 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 6 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 3 students
- **Autism**: 2 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $13,237
- **Federal share**: $445
- **State + local share**: $12,791
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $16,694,444
- **Federal share**: 6.9%
- **State share**: 24.8%
- **Local share**: 68.3%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $8,892,322

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $126,432
- **Poverty rate**: 4.5%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 42.2%
- **Unemployment**: 0.0%
- **Median gross rent**: $891
- **Foreign-born residents**: 1.7%
- **Single-parent households**: 6.4%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 50.0 miles (DEPUE NEW JERSEY ZINC MOBIL CHEMICAL CORP)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 5
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 11
- **Nearest brownfield**: 8.94 miles (100 SE PERSIMMON STREET)

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

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 7.31067 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 8.9 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Jefferson Elem School** — 0.4 mi away, 10.19% (this school: 11.76%)
- **Lincoln Elem School** — 0.8 mi away, 7.62% (this school: 11.76%)
- **Grundy Elem School** — 1.0 mi away, 7.24% (this school: 11.76%)
- **Lettie Brown Elementary School** — 2.2 mi away, 9.57% (this school: 11.76%)
- **Woodrow Wilson Elem School** — 5.1 mi away, 10.3% (this school: 11.76%)

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