# Ridge Early Childhood Center

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Full profile (human-readable): https://us.il.whatschool.ai/en/il/school/ridge-early-childhood-center-oak-forest

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `171548001865`
- **School name**: Ridge Early Childhood Center
- **Location**: Oak Forest, IL 60452
- **Address**: 5151 149th St
- **District**: Forest Ridge SD 142 (LEAID `1715480`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Coordinates**: 41.62090, -87.74530
- **Phone**: (708)687-2964

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 245
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 13
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 18.8:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 25.7%

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 14.5% (31 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**: 22.1%
- **Black/African American**: 2.0%
- **Asian**: 10.3%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 61.8%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 3.9%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 44.1%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 24.0% — 51 students


## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 8 students
- **Developmental Delay**: 6 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 2 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $13,026
- **Federal share**: $1,257
- **State + local share**: $11,769
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $17,563,880
- **Federal share**: 11.0%
- **State share**: 46.1%
- **Local share**: 42.8%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $8,268,896

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $79,637
- **Poverty rate**: 1.6%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 25.4%
- **Unemployment**: 4.4%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,368
- **Foreign-born residents**: 11.7%
- **Single-parent households**: 8.3%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 10.0 miles (LAKE CALUMET CLUSTER)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 45
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.57 miles (CHEVY PROPERTY)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: OAK FOREST
- **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**: 3.5 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Jack Hille Middle School** — 0.9 mi away, 13.92% (this school: 14.49%)
- **Scarlet Oak Elementary School** — 1.2 mi away, 14.1% (this school: 14.49%)
- **Walter F Fierke Ed Center** — 1.9 mi away, 11.44% (this school: 14.49%)
- **Kimberly Heights Elem School** — 2.5 mi away, 8.23% (this school: 14.49%)
- **A B Shepard High Sch (Campus)** — 2.8 mi away, 14.32% (this school: 14.49%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.il.whatschool.ai/en/il/school/ridge-early-childhood-center-oak-forest
- **Performance**: https://us.il.whatschool.ai/en/il/school/ridge-early-childhood-center-oak-forest/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.il.whatschool.ai/en/il/school/ridge-early-childhood-center-oak-forest/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.il.whatschool.ai/en/il/school/ridge-early-childhood-center-oak-forest/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.il.whatschool.ai/en/il/school/ridge-early-childhood-center-oak-forest/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.il.whatschool.ai/en/il/school/ridge-early-childhood-center-oak-forest/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.il.whatschool.ai/en/il/school/ridge-early-childhood-center-oak-forest/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.il.whatschool.ai/en/il/school/ridge-early-childhood-center-oak-forest/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.il.whatschool.ai/en/il/school/ridge-early-childhood-center-oak-forest/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.il.whatschool.ai/en/il/school/ridge-early-childhood-center-oak-forest/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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