# Parkside Jr High School

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `172862003004`
- **School name**: Parkside Jr High School
- **Location**: Normal, IL 61761
- **Address**: 101 N Parkside Rd
- **District**: McLean County USD 5 (LEAID `1728620`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Coordinates**: 40.51223, -89.02254
- **Phone**: (309)557-4408

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 598
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 50
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 12.0:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 46.2%

## 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 24.7% (168 students) [source: crdc_2020]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 7
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.1%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 10.3%
- **Black/African American**: 2.3%
- **Asian**: 15.2%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 65.8%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 6.3%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 46.9%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 21.6% — 147 students


## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 44 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 14 students
- **Autism**: 12 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 10 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 7 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 6 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 3 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $15,568
- **Federal share**: $649
- **State + local share**: $14,919
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $17,536,647
- **Federal share**: 7.4%
- **State share**: 29.2%
- **Local share**: 63.3%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $9,100,135

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $68,971
- **Poverty rate**: 13.8%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 46.4%
- **Unemployment**: 2.8%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,283
- **Foreign-born residents**: 7.4%
- **Single-parent households**: 12.6%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 57.4 miles (MATTHIESSEN AND HEGELER ZINC COMPANY)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 1
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 12
- **Nearest brownfield**: 32.48 miles (FORMER METHODIST FAMILY CHILD CARE CENTER PARCEL 6)

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

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 6.61974 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 1.4 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Parkside Elementary School** — 0.1 mi away, 18.68% (this school: 24.74%)
- **Kingsley Jr High School** — 1.4 mi away, 10.45% (this school: 24.74%)
- **University High School** — 1.4 mi away, 3.13% (this school: 24.74%)
- **Thomas Metcalf School** — 1.5 mi away, 1.54% (this school: 24.74%)
- **Fairview Elem School** — 1.8 mi away, 15.5% (this school: 24.74%)

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