# Palos West Elementary School

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `173060003182`
- **School name**: Palos West Elementary School
- **Location**: Palos Park, IL 60464
- **Address**: 12700 S 104th Ave
- **District**: Palos CCSD 118 (LEAID `1730600`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Coordinates**: 41.65860, -87.87510
- **Phone**: (708)448-6888

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 700
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 50
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 14.0:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 34.7%

## 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 10.1% (66 students) [source: crdc_2020]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 2
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.2%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 12.1%
- **Black/African American**: 2.7%
- **Asian**: 1.9%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 79.6%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 3.6%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 35.9%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 18.5% — 121 students


## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 22 students
- **Developmental Delay**: 11 students
- **Autism**: 9 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 9 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 9 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 5 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 3 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 2 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $18,364
- **Federal share**: $607
- **State + local share**: $17,757
### 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**: $121,063
- **Poverty rate**: 5.7%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 51.6%
- **Unemployment**: 4.1%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,185
- **Foreign-born residents**: 17.0%
- **Single-parent households**: 5.9%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 4.8 miles (LENZ OIL SERVICE INC)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 10
- **Nearest brownfield**: 6.61 miles (TRI CENTRAL MARINE TERMINAL)

### 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**: 7.4 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Carl Sandburg High School** — 1.2 mi away, 6.9% (this school: 10.11%)
- **Orland Park Elem School** — 2.0 mi away, 5.18% (this school: 10.11%)
- **Centennial School** — 2.1 mi away, 4% (this school: 10.11%)
- **High Point Elem School** — 2.7 mi away, 3.82% (this school: 10.11%)
- **Prairie Elem School** — 3.3 mi away, 4.38% (this school: 10.11%)

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