# Prairie Central Jr High School

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `170000505127`
- **School name**: Prairie Central Jr High School
- **Location**: Forrest, IL 61741
- **Address**: 800 N Wood St
- **District**: Prairie Central CUSD 8 (LEAID `1700005`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 7–8
- **Coordinates**: 40.75726, -88.41336
- **Phone**: (815)657-8660

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 250
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 20
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 12.5:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 52.4%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2025
- **Overall (IL Report Card)**: 50.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 17.5% (44 students) [source: crdc_2020]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 7.1%
- **Black/African American**: 0.8%
- **Asian**: 1.6%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 88.5%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 2.0%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 47.0%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 21.4% — 54 students


## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Other Health Impairment**: 15 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 15 students
- **Autism**: 5 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 3 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 2 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $15,256
- **Federal share**: $1,253
- **State + local share**: $14,004
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $20,465,116
- **Federal share**: 7.3%
- **State share**: 37.6%
- **Local share**: 55.1%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $10,264,322

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $75,903
- **Poverty rate**: 11.6%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 19.6%
- **Unemployment**: 1.6%
- **Median gross rent**: $675
- **Foreign-born residents**: 0.3%
- **Single-parent households**: 11.9%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 44.8 miles (JOLIET ARMY AMMUNITION PLANT MANUFACTURING AREA)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 1
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 3
- **Nearest brownfield**: 33.13 miles (KNOEDLER MANUFACTURING)

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

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Prairie Central Upper Elementary** — 0.4 mi away, 5.51% (this school: 17.53%)
- **Prairie Central  Elem School** — 5.6 mi away, 6.01% (this school: 17.53%)
- **Prairie Central Primary East** — 6.4 mi away, 9.42% (this school: 17.53%)
- **Saunemin Elem School** — 9.2 mi away, 15.5% (this school: 17.53%)
- **Pontiac High School** — 13.9 mi away, 12.27% (this school: 17.53%)

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