# Palos South Middle School

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `173060003181`
- **School name**: Palos South Middle School
- **Location**: Palos Park, IL 60464
- **Address**: 13100 S 82nd Ave
- **District**: Palos CCSD 118 (LEAID `1730600`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Coordinates**: 41.65080, -87.82090
- **Phone**: (708)448-5971

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 717
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 49
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 14.6:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 36.4%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: IL Report Card
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Exemplary
- **Indicators**:
  - overall: Exemplary

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2025
- **Overall (IL Report Card)**: 82.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 16.1% (113 students) [source: crdc_2020]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 11
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.3%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 13.5%
- **Black/African American**: 2.4%
- **Asian**: 1.2%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 78.1%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.4%
- **Two or more races**: 4.1%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 32.6%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 12.5% — 88 students


## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 51 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 34 students
- **Autism**: 7 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 7 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 6 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 1 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students
- **Traumatic Brain Injury**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $17,278
- **Federal share**: $392
- **State + local share**: $16,886
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $20,044,595
- **Federal share**: 7.9%
- **State share**: 28.2%
- **Local share**: 63.9%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $11,422,685

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $105,500
- **Poverty rate**: 6.6%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 41.8%
- **Unemployment**: 3.2%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,783
- **Foreign-born residents**: 7.0%
- **Single-parent households**: 1.6%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 7.4 miles (LENZ OIL SERVICE INC)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 24
- **Nearest brownfield**: 4.53 miles (CHRYSLER PARCELS)

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

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 6.88793 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 4.8 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Palos East Elementary School** — 1.0 mi away, 15.81% (this school: 16.14%)
- **Prairie Elem School** — 1.2 mi away, 4.38% (this school: 16.14%)
- **Carl Sandburg High School** — 1.8 mi away, 6.9% (this school: 16.14%)
- **Navajo Heights Elem School** — 2.1 mi away, 8.33% (this school: 16.14%)
- **A B Shepard High Sch (Campus)** — 2.4 mi away, 14.32% (this school: 16.14%)

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