# Reed-Custer High School

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `173338003456`
- **School name**: Reed-Custer High School
- **Location**: Braidwood, IL 60408
- **Address**: 249 Comet Dr
- **District**: Reed Custer CUSD 255U (LEAID `1733380`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 41.25823, -88.20613
- **Phone**: (815)458-2166
- **Wikidata QID**: Q7306610 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reed-Custer_High_School

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 397
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 34
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 11.7:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 41.8%

## 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

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 97.0% (cohort of 99)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 109

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 22.3% (107 students) [source: crdc_2020]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 5
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.4%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 7.8%
- **Black/African American**: 0.9%
- **Asian**: 0.7%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 86.8%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.2%
- **Two or more races**: 3.3%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 43.1%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 8.7% — 42 students


## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 23 students
- **Autism**: 12 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 12 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 9 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 7 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 4 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $21,206
- **Federal share**: $246
- **State + local share**: $20,960
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $27,074,704
- **Federal share**: 6.6%
- **State share**: 18.3%
- **Local share**: 75.1%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $10,076,183

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $78,371
- **Poverty rate**: 10.1%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 12.7%
- **Unemployment**: 5.3%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,164
- **Foreign-born residents**: 0.6%
- **Single-parent households**: 9.3%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 8.6 miles (JOLIET ARMY AMMUNITION PLANT MANUFACTURING AREA)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 2
- **Nearest brownfield**: 4.96 miles (FORMER CELOTEX DUMP)

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

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 6.8725 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 2.7 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Reed-Custer Middle School** — 0.1 mi away, 19.72% (this school: 22.34%)
- **Reed-Custer Elementary School** — 1.0 mi away, 12.63% (this school: 22.34%)
- **Bruning Elem School** — 3.7 mi away, 11.74% (this school: 22.34%)
- **Braceville Elem School** — 3.7 mi away, 14.71% (this school: 22.34%)
- **Coal City Intermediate School** — 4.4 mi away, 4.02% (this school: 22.34%)

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