# Serena Middle School

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `171588006553`
- **School name**: Serena Middle School
- **Location**: Serena, IL 60549
- **Address**: 2283 N 3812th Rd
- **District**: Serena CUSD 2 (LEAID `1715880`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 5–8
- **Coordinates**: 41.48772, -88.73081
- **Phone**: (815)496-9250

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 184
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 15
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 12.3:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 44.6%

## 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 6.7% (11 students) [source: crdc_2020]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 15
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 1.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 9.1%
- **Black/African American**: 0.0%
- **Asian**: 1.0%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 83.8%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 5.1%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 47.6%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 16.7% — 28 students


## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 22 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 4 students
- **Autism**: 3 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 3 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 2 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 1 students
- **Traumatic Brain Injury**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $17,623
- **Federal share**: $1,258
- **State + local share**: $16,365
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $25,716,258
- **Federal share**: 6.5%
- **State share**: 24.9%
- **Local share**: 68.6%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $10,070,552

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $89,089
- **Poverty rate**: 7.5%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 19.0%
- **Unemployment**: 3.9%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,008
- **Foreign-born residents**: 2.1%
- **Single-parent households**: 5.8%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 10.9 miles (OTTAWA RADIATION AREAS)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 1
- **Nearest brownfield**: 4.17 miles (ABANDONED TANK SITE)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: SERENA COMMUNITY SCHOOL
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 4
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2025-01-25

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Milton Pope Elem School** — 8.0 mi away, 5.52% (this school: 6.67%)
- **Newark Comm High School** — 8.7 mi away, 2.31% (this school: 6.67%)
- **Wallace Elem School** — 9.3 mi away, 6.63% (this school: 6.67%)
- **Somonauk Middle School** — 10.2 mi away, 5.21% (this school: 6.67%)
- **Nettle Creek Elem School** — 12.5 mi away, 4.76% (this school: 6.67%)

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