# R K Welsh Elem School

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Full profile (human-readable): https://us.il.whatschool.ai/en/il/school/r-k-welsh-elem-school-rockford

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `173451003601`
- **School name**: R K Welsh Elem School
- **Location**: Rockford, IL 61103
- **Address**: 2100 Huffman Blvd
- **District**: Rockford SD 205 (LEAID `1734510`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–5
- **Coordinates**: 42.29521, -89.08769
- **Phone**: (815)966-3260

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 483
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 25
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 19.3:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 87.4%

## 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 52.4% (230 students) [source: crdc_2020]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 6
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.2%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 13.4%
- **Black/African American**: 0.5%
- **Asian**: 49.8%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 23.3%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 12.9%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 87.6%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 18.0% — 79 students


## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 26 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 21 students
- **Developmental Delay**: 12 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 12 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 6 students
- **Autism**: 4 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 2 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 2 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $17,649
- **Federal share**: $3,892
- **State + local share**: $13,757
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $21,458,258
- **Federal share**: 13.0%
- **State share**: 49.1%
- **Local share**: 38.0%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $10,279,046

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $52,348
- **Poverty rate**: 22.6%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 10.5%
- **Unemployment**: 6.2%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,146
- **Foreign-born residents**: 6.9%
- **Single-parent households**: 30.4%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 3.8 miles (INTERSTATE POLLUTION CONTROL INC)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 7
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 80
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.68 miles (THINK BIG PROPERTY)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: ROCKFORD
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2024-10-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 7.36768 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 2.0 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **West View Elem School** — 1.0 mi away, 42.42% (this school: 52.39%)
- **Haskell Elementary School** — 1.1 mi away, 42.23% (this school: 52.39%)
- **Loves Park Elem School** — 1.9 mi away, 33.13% (this school: 52.39%)
- **Galapagos Rockford Charter Sch** — 2.3 mi away, 42.56% (this school: 52.39%)
- **Thurgood Marshall Elementary** — 2.3 mi away, 3.75% (this school: 52.39%)

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