# Shepherd Middle School

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Full profile (human-readable): https://us.il.whatschool.ai/en/il/school/shepherd-middle-school-ottawa

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `173030003140`
- **School name**: Shepherd Middle School
- **Location**: Ottawa, IL 61350
- **Address**: 701 E McKinley Rd
- **District**: Ottawa ESD 141 (LEAID `1730300`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 7–8
- **Coordinates**: 41.32370, -88.82881
- **Phone**: (815)433-1133

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 353
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 30
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 11.8:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 54.7%

## 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 17.3% (68 students) [source: crdc_2020]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 27
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.3%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 15.4%
- **Black/African American**: 0.5%
- **Asian**: 2.4%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 77.7%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 3.7%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 53.8%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 15.4% — 61 students


## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 28 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 21 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 5 students
- **Autism**: 2 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 2 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 1 students
- **Traumatic Brain Injury**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $18,089
- **Federal share**: $1,144
- **State + local share**: $16,945
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $20,638,431
- **Federal share**: 11.4%
- **State share**: 39.0%
- **Local share**: 49.6%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $9,254,122

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $82,449
- **Poverty rate**: 8.2%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 23.8%
- **Unemployment**: 3.5%
- **Median gross rent**: $973
- **Foreign-born residents**: 1.8%
- **Single-parent households**: 15.0%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 2.0 miles (OTTAWA RADIATION AREAS)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 5
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.42 miles (FORMER FEECE OIL PROPERTY)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: OTTAWA
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 6
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2025-10-01

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **McKinley Elem School** — 0.6 mi away, 10.86% (this school: 17.26%)
- **Lincoln Elem School** — 2.1 mi away, 8.05% (this school: 17.26%)
- **Wallace Elem School** — 6.7 mi away, 6.63% (this school: 17.26%)
- **Marseilles Elementary School** — 6.8 mi away, 10.62% (this school: 17.26%)
- **Rutland Elem School** — 6.8 mi away, 9.72% (this school: 17.26%)

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