# South Middle School

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `170414000105`
- **School name**: South Middle School
- **Location**: Arlington Heights, IL 60005
- **Address**: 400 S Highland Ave
- **District**: Arlington Heights SD 25 (LEAID `1704140`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Coordinates**: 42.07660, -87.98620
- **Phone**: (847)398-4250

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 812
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 67
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 12.1:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 15.6%

## 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 10.0% (83 students) [source: crdc_2020]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 6
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.2%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 9.6%
- **Black/African American**: 6.6%
- **Asian**: 1.3%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 80.6%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.4%
- **Two or more races**: 1.3%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 16.0%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 12.7% — 106 students


## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 48 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 17 students
- **Autism**: 14 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 14 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 6 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 2 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 1 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $17,634
- **Federal share**: $743
- **State + local share**: $16,891
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $20,268,662
- **Federal share**: 5.3%
- **State share**: 24.8%
- **Local share**: 69.9%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $10,455,192

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $142,417
- **Poverty rate**: 3.3%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 74.1%
- **Unemployment**: 3.6%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,600
- **Foreign-born residents**: 8.9%
- **Single-parent households**: 5.8%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 16.0 miles (TRI COUNTY LANDFILL CO WASTE MANAGEMENT OF ILLINOIS INC)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 109
- **Nearest brownfield**: 5.53 miles (DESPLAINES RAND AND PINE ROAD PROPERTY)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: ARLINGTON HEIGHTS
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2025-07-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 7.25566 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 6.4 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Westgate Elem School** — 0.6 mi away, 3.38% (this school: 9.98%)
- **Dryden Elem School** — 0.9 mi away, 1.54% (this school: 9.98%)
- **Windsor Elementary School** — 1.1 mi away, 2.76% (this school: 9.98%)
- **Olive-Mary Stitt School** — 1.6 mi away, 3.6% (this school: 9.98%)
- **Westbrook Early Learning Cntr** — 1.6 mi away, 3.74% (this school: 9.98%)

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