# Niles West High School

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Full profile (human-readable): https://us.il.whatschool.ai/en/il/school/niles-west-high-school-skokie

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `172853002988`
- **School name**: Niles West High School
- **Location**: Skokie, IL 60077
- **Address**: 5701 Oakton St
- **District**: Niles Twp HSD 219 (LEAID `1728530`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 42.02508, -87.77136
- **Phone**: (847)626-2510
- **Wikidata QID**: Q14687965 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niles_West_High_School
- **Founded**: 1959

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 2,646
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 197
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 13.4:1

## 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

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 93.1% (cohort of 623)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 610

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 24.6% (630 students) [source: crdc_2020]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.1%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 13.2%
- **Black/African American**: 33.3%
- **Asian**: 4.7%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 44.8%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.4%
- **Two or more races**: 3.6%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 9.3% — 239 students


## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 96 students
- **Autism**: 44 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 42 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 39 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 37 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 5 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 3 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 2 students
- **Traumatic Brain Injury**: 1 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $28,960
- **Federal share**: $591
- **State + local share**: $28,369
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $43,516,779
- **Federal share**: 1.0%
- **State share**: 18.4%
- **Local share**: 80.6%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $19,142,239

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $156,771
- **Poverty rate**: 3.5%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 56.0%
- **Unemployment**: 6.2%
- **Median gross rent**: $3,501
- **Foreign-born residents**: 39.1%
- **Single-parent households**: 7.7%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 23.6 miles (OUTBOARD MARINE CORP)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 33
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 107
- **Nearest brownfield**: 3.30 miles (EVANSTON ANIMAL SHELTER)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: SKOKIE
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2025-07-02

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 7.2087 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 4.3 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Thomas Edison Elem School** — 0.5 mi away, 8.82% (this school: 24.59%)
- **Madison Elem School** — 0.9 mi away, 17.53% (this school: 24.59%)
- **Fairview South Elementary School** — 1.3 mi away, 6.8% (this school: 24.59%)
- **Wildwood Elem School** — 1.3 mi away, 4.51% (this school: 24.59%)
- **Clarence E Culver School** — 1.4 mi away, 4.66% (this school: 24.59%)

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