# Nelson Ridge School

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `172814003778`
- **School name**: Nelson Ridge School
- **Location**: New Lenox, IL 60451
- **Address**: 2470 Nelson Rd
- **District**: New Lenox SD 122 (LEAID `1728140`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 4–6
- **Coordinates**: 41.47549, -87.98159
- **Phone**: (815)462-2870

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 432
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 22
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 19.6:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 11.1%

## 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 5.0% (22 students) [source: crdc_2020]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 12.4%
- **Black/African American**: 1.1%
- **Asian**: 1.1%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 82.8%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 2.5%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 14.3%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 13.0% — 58 students


## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 26 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 17 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 8 students
- **Autism**: 4 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 2 students
- **Developmental Delay**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $12,222
- **Federal share**: $411
- **State + local share**: $11,811
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $18,117,121
- **Federal share**: 5.3%
- **State share**: 24.2%
- **Local share**: 70.5%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $8,271,227

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $126,442
- **Poverty rate**: 5.2%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 37.4%
- **Unemployment**: 2.6%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,420
- **Foreign-born residents**: 2.3%
- **Single-parent households**: 7.8%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 9.0 miles (JOLIET ARMY AMMUNITION PLANT LOAD ASSEMBLY PACKING AREA)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 4
- **Nearest brownfield**: 6.67 miles (JCC EAST SIDE FIRING RANGE)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: NEW LENOX
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 7.83138 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 7.8 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Nelson Prairie School** — 0.1 mi away, 3.59% (this school: 4.99%)
- **Lincoln Way West** — 1.7 mi away, 3.05% (this school: 4.99%)
- **Spencer Pointe** — 2.1 mi away, 3.08% (this school: 4.99%)
- **Spencer Crossing** — 2.1 mi away, 3.79% (this school: 4.99%)
- **Alex M Martino Jr High School** — 2.8 mi away, 3.97% (this school: 4.99%)

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