# Prairie Knolls Middle Sch

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `170783005957`
- **School name**: Prairie Knolls Middle Sch
- **Location**: Elgin, IL 60124
- **Address**: 225 Nesler Rd
- **District**: Central CUSD 301 (LEAID `1707830`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–7
- **Coordinates**: 42.02769, -88.37342
- **Phone**: (847)717-8100

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 770
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 44
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 17.5:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 16.8%

## 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 5.8% (42 students) [source: crdc_2020]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.3%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 17.8%
- **Black/African American**: 12.3%
- **Asian**: 1.5%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 64.4%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 3.7%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 17.1%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 10.3% — 75 students


## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Other Health Impairment**: 23 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 23 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 8 students
- **Autism**: 6 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 2 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 1 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $13,890
- **Federal share**: $416
- **State + local share**: $13,474
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $19,214,757
- **Federal share**: 6.0%
- **State share**: 27.9%
- **Local share**: 66.1%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $7,310,015

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $167,991
- **Poverty rate**: 3.9%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 59.3%
- **Unemployment**: 4.2%
- **Foreign-born residents**: 12.5%
- **Single-parent households**: 10.5%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 6.1 miles (TRI COUNTY LANDFILL CO WASTE MANAGEMENT OF ILLINOIS INC)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 34
- **Nearest brownfield**: 7.06 miles (CAFT METAL SPINNING)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: ELGIN
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2025-10-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 8.41763 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 4.7 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Prairie View Grade School** — 0.5 mi away, 1.98% (this school: 5.77%)
- **Country Trails Elem** — 2.2 mi away, 3.25% (this school: 5.77%)
- **Fox Meadow Elementary School** — 3.3 mi away, 4.17% (this school: 5.77%)
- **Cambridge Lakes Charter School** — 4.8 mi away, 5.35% (this school: 5.77%)
- **Mackeben Elementary School** — 9.1 mi away, 5.41% (this school: 5.77%)

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