# Stephen Decatur Middle School

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `171185004100`
- **School name**: Stephen Decatur Middle School
- **Location**: Decatur, IL 62526
- **Address**: 1 Educational Park
- **District**: Decatur SD 61 (LEAID `1711850`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 7–8
- **Coordinates**: 39.88614, -88.94288
- **Phone**: (217)362-3251
- **Wikidata QID**: Q7609048 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Decatur_High_School_(Decatur,_Illinois)

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 413
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 23
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 18.0:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 85.7%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: IL Report Card
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Intensive
- **Indicators**:
  - overall: Intensive

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2025
- **Overall (IL Report Card)**: 32.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 66.5% (417 students) [source: crdc_2020]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.5%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 2.8%
- **Black/African American**: 0.8%
- **Asian**: 44.2%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 37.5%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 14.2%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 66.4%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 16.0% — 100 students


## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 42 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 5 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 4 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 2 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 2 students
- **Autism**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $22,355
- **Federal share**: $5,414
- **State + local share**: $16,942
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $19,130,993
- **Federal share**: 21.4%
- **State share**: 43.3%
- **Local share**: 35.3%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $6,898,547

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $31,735
- **Poverty rate**: 32.8%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 26.3%
- **Unemployment**: 13.4%
- **Median gross rent**: $756
- **Foreign-born residents**: 11.1%
- **Single-parent households**: 20.9%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 30.4 miles (CENTRAL ILLINOIS PUBLIC SERVICE CO)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 2
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 24
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.11 miles (FORMER K S MERCHANDISE DEPARTMENT STORE)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: DECATUR
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2023-10-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 7.55308 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 1.6 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Parsons Elementary School** — 1.2 mi away, 64.72% (this school: 66.51%)
- **Robertson Charter School** — 2.1 mi away, 53.02% (this school: 66.51%)
- **Franklin Grove Elem School** — 2.6 mi away, 66.12% (this school: 66.51%)
- **Maroa-Forsyth Grade School** — 3.3 mi away, 6.08% (this school: 66.51%)
- **Johns Hill Magnet School** — 3.4 mi away, 30.96% (this school: 66.51%)

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