# Springfield Ball Charter School

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Full profile (human-readable): https://us.il.whatschool.ai/en/il/school/springfield-ball-charter-school-springfield

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `173708003773`
- **School name**: Springfield Ball Charter School
- **Location**: Springfield, IL 62703
- **Address**: 2530 E Ash St
- **District**: Springfield SD 186 (LEAID `1737080`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–8
- **Charter school**: Yes
- **Coordinates**: 39.77918, -89.61749
- **Phone**: (217)525-3275

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 394
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 26
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 15.2:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 60.9%

## 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 26.0% (103 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**: 4.8%
- **Black/African American**: 0.3%
- **Asian**: 32.1%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 46.4%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 16.5%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 61.2%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 14.8% — 59 students


## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $14,901
- **Federal share**: $194
- **State + local share**: $14,707
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $24,770,314
- **Federal share**: 18.1%
- **State share**: 35.9%
- **Local share**: 46.0%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $11,816,679

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $34,667
- **Poverty rate**: 34.0%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 7.5%
- **Unemployment**: 17.3%
- **Median gross rent**: $938
- **Foreign-born residents**: 3.1%
- **Single-parent households**: 14.1%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 23.7 miles (CENTRAL ILLINOIS PUBLIC SERVICE CO)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 1
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 10
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.49 miles (SPRINGFIELD COMMUNITY GARDEN 2)

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

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 6.99768 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 3.9 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Iles Elem School** — 1.0 mi away, 5.41% (this school: 26.01%)
- **Rochester Elem 2-3** — 4.1 mi away, 2.36% (this school: 26.01%)
- **Rochester Elem EC-1 Sch** — 4.1 mi away, 0.72% (this school: 26.01%)
- **Owen Marsh Elem School** — 4.2 mi away, 23.72% (this school: 26.01%)
- **Rochester High School** — 4.5 mi away, 5.74% (this school: 26.01%)

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