# The Joseph Sears School

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `172097002378`
- **School name**: The Joseph Sears School
- **Location**: Kenilworth, IL 60043
- **Address**: 542 Abbotsford Rd
- **District**: Kenilworth SD 38 (LEAID `1720970`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Coordinates**: 42.09000, -87.71810
- **Phone**: (847)853-3803

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 471
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 53
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 8.9:1

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2025
- **Overall (IL Report Card)**: 82.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 10.7% (50 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**: 4.1%
- **Black/African American**: 3.9%
- **Asian**: 0.9%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 85.2%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.4%
- **Two or more races**: 5.4%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 13.5% — 63 students


## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 16 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 11 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 7 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 3 students
- **Autism**: 1 students
- **Developmental Delay**: 1 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $32,041
- **Federal share**: $708
- **State + local share**: $31,333
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $32,417,910
- **Federal share**: 1.6%
- **State share**: 2.2%
- **Local share**: 96.2%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $15,025,586

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $250,001
- **Poverty rate**: 0.9%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 92.4%
- **Unemployment**: 3.4%
- **Median gross rent**: $3,501
- **Foreign-born residents**: 7.5%
- **Single-parent households**: 2.6%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 19.7 miles (OUTBOARD MARINE CORP)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 21
- **Nearest brownfield**: 2.77 miles (1600 FOSTER AVENUE)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: KENILWORTH
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2025-07-02

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 7.29172 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 5.4 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Harper Elem School** — 1.0 mi away, 7.25% (this school: 10.71%)
- **McKenzie Elem School** — 1.1 mi away, 5.91% (this school: 10.71%)
- **Central Elem School** — 1.2 mi away, 5.39% (this school: 10.71%)
- **Highcrest Middle School** — 1.3 mi away, 4.76% (this school: 10.71%)
- **Wilmette Junior High School** — 1.6 mi away, 8.95% (this school: 10.71%)

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