# Prairie-Hills Junior High School

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `172472002673`
- **School name**: Prairie-Hills Junior High School
- **Location**: Markham, IL 60428
- **Address**: 16315 Richmond
- **District**: Prairie-Hills ESD 144 (LEAID `1724720`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Coordinates**: 41.59253, -87.68830
- **Phone**: (708)210-2860

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 766
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 30
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 25.5:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 94.0%

## 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 100.9% (966 students) [source: crdc_2020]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.5%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 13.2%
- **Black/African American**: 1.1%
- **Asian**: 83.4%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 1.7%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 0.1%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 95.4%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 10.3% — 99 students


## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 85 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 29 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 14 students
- **Autism**: 6 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 6 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 5 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 4 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $19,005
- **Federal share**: $2,834
- **State + local share**: $16,171
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $23,470,813
- **Federal share**: 16.3%
- **State share**: 53.0%
- **Local share**: 30.7%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $7,774,895

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $56,563
- **Poverty rate**: 21.2%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 21.7%
- **Unemployment**: 15.1%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,645
- **Foreign-born residents**: 6.0%
- **Single-parent households**: 29.0%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 8.6 miles (LAKE CALUMET CLUSTER)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 64
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.85 miles (MARKHAM MOTORS 159TH TURNER SITE)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: MARKHAM
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2025-07-02

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 6.88793 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 5.9 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Markham Park Elem School** — 0.9 mi away, 35.79% (this school: 100.94%)
- **Jesse C White Learning Academy** — 1.0 mi away, 44.68% (this school: 100.94%)
- **Highlands Elem School** — 1.1 mi away, 35.85% (this school: 100.94%)
- **Nob Hill Elem School** — 1.1 mi away, 38.73% (this school: 100.94%)
- **Maya Angelou Elem Sch** — 1.6 mi away, 45.45% (this school: 100.94%)

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