# South Prairie Elementary School

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `173846002633`
- **School name**: South Prairie Elementary School
- **Location**: Sycamore, IL 60178
- **Address**: 820 Borden Ave
- **District**: Sycamore CUSD 427 (LEAID `1738460`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Coordinates**: 41.97460, -88.69990
- **Phone**: (815)899-8299

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 456
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 27
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 16.9:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 34.4%

## 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 7.1% (19 students) [source: crdc_2020]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.4%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 11.0%
- **Black/African American**: 0.7%
- **Asian**: 6.8%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 76.5%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 4.6%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 36.2%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 19.9% — 53 students


## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Developmental Delay**: 8 students
- **Autism**: 3 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 3 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 2 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 2 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 2 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $15,282
- **Federal share**: $544
- **State + local share**: $14,737
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $20,162,823
- **Federal share**: 4.6%
- **State share**: 36.1%
- **Local share**: 59.3%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $10,110,864

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $78,309
- **Poverty rate**: 6.4%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 46.2%
- **Unemployment**: 5.9%
- **Median gross rent**: $875
- **Foreign-born residents**: 4.7%
- **Single-parent households**: 12.5%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 20.2 miles (MIG DEWANE LANDFILL)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 4
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 23
- **Nearest brownfield**: 4.94 miles (PROTANO S AUTO PARTS)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: SYCAMORE
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2024-07-01

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Southeast Elem School** — 1.0 mi away, 1.97% (this school: 7.09%)
- **Jefferson Elem School** — 3.2 mi away, 4.7% (this school: 7.09%)
- **North Grove Elementary School** — 3.5 mi away, 1.33% (this school: 7.09%)
- **Malta Elementary School** — 8.0 mi away, 5.92% (this school: 7.09%)
- **Genoa Elementary School** — 8.2 mi away, 0.66% (this school: 7.09%)

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