# Pontiac High School

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `173222003369`
- **School name**: Pontiac High School
- **Location**: Pontiac, IL 61764
- **Address**: 1100 E Indiana Ave
- **District**: Pontiac Twp HSD 90 (LEAID `1732220`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 40.88768, -88.61639
- **Phone**: (815)844-6113
- **Wikidata QID**: Q7228243 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pontiac_Township_High_School
- **Founded**: 1898

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 658
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 50
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 13.2:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 45.9%

## 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**: 78.4% (cohort of 171)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 299

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 12.3% (85 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**: 9.3%
- **Black/African American**: 0.1%
- **Asian**: 2.8%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 82.0%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 5.8%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 52.4%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 17.6% — 122 students


## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 31 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 25 students
- **Autism**: 14 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 7 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 7 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 4 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $18,367
- **Federal share**: $498
- **State + local share**: $17,869
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $24,149,425
- **Federal share**: 9.0%
- **State share**: 36.1%
- **Local share**: 54.9%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $10,711,207

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $65,743
- **Poverty rate**: 10.7%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 20.1%
- **Unemployment**: 3.8%
- **Median gross rent**: $877
- **Foreign-born residents**: 1.7%
- **Single-parent households**: 22.7%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 34.0 miles (OTTAWA RADIATION AREAS)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 1
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 5
- **Nearest brownfield**: 19.54 miles (KNOEDLER MANUFACTURING)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: IL AMERICAN-PONTIAC
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2016-07-01

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Graymont Elem School** — 8.2 mi away, 5.36% (this school: 12.27%)
- **Cornell Elem School** — 9.2 mi away, 8.25% (this school: 12.27%)
- **Prairie Central  Elem School** — 11.4 mi away, 6.01% (this school: 12.27%)
- **Prairie Central Primary West** — 11.7 mi away, 4.59% (this school: 12.27%)
- **Flanagan Elem School** — 12.6 mi away, 6.74% (this school: 12.27%)

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