# Northwestern High School

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `173054003174`
- **School name**: Northwestern High School
- **Location**: Palmyra, IL 62674
- **Address**: 30889 Route 111
- **District**: Northwestern CUSD 2 (LEAID `1730540`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 39.44646, -89.99329
- **Phone**: (217)436-2011
- **Wikidata QID**: Q7060315

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 94
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 11
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 8.5:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 39.4%

## 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**: 80.8% (cohort of 26)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 21

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 25.3% (24 students) [source: crdc_2020]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 1
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 0.0%
- **Black/African American**: 0.0%
- **Asian**: 0.0%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 100.0%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 0.0%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 57.1%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 26.9% — 26 students


## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Other Health Impairment**: 16 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 7 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 3 students
- **Autism**: 2 students
- **Traumatic Brain Injury**: 2 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 1 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Career & Technical Education / Dual Enrollment

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $21,655
- **Federal share**: $1,688
- **State + local share**: $19,967
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $21,293,051
- **Federal share**: 13.1%
- **State share**: 49.6%
- **Local share**: 37.3%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $10,141,994

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $59,912
- **Poverty rate**: 13.4%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 17.1%
- **Unemployment**: 6.2%
- **Median gross rent**: $699
- **Foreign-born residents**: 0.1%
- **Single-parent households**: 10.6%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 33.9 miles (EAGLE ZINC CO DIV T L DIAMOND)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 0
- **Nearest brownfield**: 22.75 miles (JACKSONVILLE DEVELOPMENT CENTER)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: SOUTH PALMYRA WATER COMMISSION
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 29
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 15
- **Most recent violation**: 2025-05-30

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Northwestern Elem School** — 0.1 mi away, 11.7% (this school: 25.26%)
- **Waverly Elementary School** — 10.2 mi away, 12.74% (this school: 25.26%)
- **North Mac Intermediate** — 11.3 mi away, 8.66% (this school: 25.26%)
- **North Mac Middle School** — 11.3 mi away, 15% (this school: 25.26%)
- **Carlinville Intermediate School** — 12.3 mi away, 5.79% (this school: 25.26%)

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