# Nichols Middle School

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Full profile (human-readable): https://us.il.whatschool.ai/en/il/school/nichols-middle-school-evanston

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `171446001795`
- **School name**: Nichols Middle School
- **Location**: Evanston, IL 60202
- **Address**: 800 Greenleaf St
- **District**: Evanston CCSD 65 (LEAID `1714460`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Coordinates**: 42.03722, -87.68286
- **Phone**: (847)859-8661

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 628
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 65
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 9.7:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 34.9%

## 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 11.3% (83 students) [source: crdc_2020]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.3%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 17.0%
- **Black/African American**: 3.8%
- **Asian**: 18.1%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 51.2%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 9.5%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 35.9%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 11.1% — 82 students


## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 18 students
- **Autism**: 6 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 6 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 6 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 2 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $26,331
- **Federal share**: $74
- **State + local share**: $26,257
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $29,823,073
- **Federal share**: 8.0%
- **State share**: 25.9%
- **Local share**: 66.1%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $14,491,280

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $77,694
- **Poverty rate**: 14.8%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 59.5%
- **Unemployment**: 6.5%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,401
- **Foreign-born residents**: 7.0%
- **Single-parent households**: 33.4%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 23.7 miles (OUTBOARD MARINE CORP)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 1
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 54
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.30 miles (1600 FOSTER AVENUE)

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

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 7.2087 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 6.0 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Lincoln Elem School** — 0.4 mi away, 1.34% (this school: 11.29%)
- **Washington Elem School** — 0.6 mi away, 2.1% (this school: 11.29%)
- **Dewey Elem School** — 0.7 mi away, 3.8% (this school: 11.29%)
- **Oakton Elem School** — 0.8 mi away, 7.83% (this school: 11.29%)
- **Chute Middle School** — 0.9 mi away, 11.18% (this school: 11.29%)

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