# Ralston Elem School

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `171824002107`
- **School name**: Ralston Elem School
- **Location**: Machesney Park, IL 61115
- **Address**: 710 Ralston Rd
- **District**: Harlem UD 122 (LEAID `1718240`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 1–6
- **Coordinates**: 42.36953, -89.04593
- **Phone**: (815)654-4505

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 232
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 16
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 14.5:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 45.3%

## 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 9.7% (34 students) [source: crdc_2020]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 9.7%
- **Black/African American**: 0.9%
- **Asian**: 4.9%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 78.2%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 6.3%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 46.3%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 10.0% — 35 students


## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Other Health Impairment**: 12 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 11 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 10 students
- **Developmental Delay**: 5 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 4 students
- **Autism**: 3 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 2 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 2 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $14,876
- **Federal share**: $2,119
- **State + local share**: $12,756
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $21,470,092
- **Federal share**: 12.1%
- **State share**: 46.8%
- **Local share**: 41.1%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $11,377,665

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $78,571
- **Poverty rate**: 8.4%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 26.6%
- **Unemployment**: 3.9%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,338
- **Foreign-born residents**: 8.3%
- **Single-parent households**: 7.2%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 6.9 miles (BELOIT CORP)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 1
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 32
- **Nearest brownfield**: 3.08 miles (FORMER COASTAL MART PROPERTY)

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

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 7.36768 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 7.4 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Thurgood Marshall Elementary** — 4.0 mi away, 3.75% (this school: 9.74%)
- **Thurgood Marshall School** — 4.0 mi away, 8.13% (this school: 9.74%)
- **Willowbrook Middle School** — 7.3 mi away, 7.54% (this school: 9.74%)
- **Prairie Hill Elem School** — 7.6 mi away, 7.87% (this school: 9.74%)
- **Caledonia Elem School** — 7.7 mi away, 9.61% (this school: 9.74%)

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