# Thornridge High School

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `173897003954`
- **School name**: Thornridge High School
- **Location**: Dolton, IL 60419
- **Address**: 15000 Cottage Grove Ave
- **District**: Thornton Twp HSD 205 (LEAID `1738970`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 41.62082, -87.59871
- **Phone**: (708)271-4401
- **Wikidata QID**: Q7796471 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thornridge_High_School
- **Founded**: 1960

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 969
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 63
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 15.4:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 86.2%

## 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

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 80.2% (cohort of 262)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 131

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 11.7% (131 students) [source: crdc_2020]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.1%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 4.1%
- **Black/African American**: 0.0%
- **Asian**: 94.5%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 0.4%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 0.9%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 80.0%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 20.1% — 224 students


## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 101 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 44 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 32 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 14 students
- **Autism**: 8 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 5 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 2 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 2 students
- **Traumatic Brain Injury**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $36,220
- **Federal share**: $2,229
- **State + local share**: $33,991
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $30,798,466
- **Federal share**: 8.0%
- **State share**: 35.7%
- **Local share**: 56.3%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $11,972,009

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $68,699
- **Poverty rate**: 11.9%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 19.5%
- **Unemployment**: 14.1%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,494
- **Foreign-born residents**: 11.5%
- **Single-parent households**: 28.8%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 3.7 miles (ESTECH GENERAL CHEMICAL COMPANY)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 1
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 95
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.75 miles (SITE 3 SIBLEY MARQUETTE MANISTEE I)

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

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 7.81133 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 3.6 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Berger-Vandenberg Elem School** — 0.7 mi away, 9.34% (this school: 11.74%)
- **Brooks Middle School** — 1.6 mi away, 0.34% (this school: 11.74%)
- **Thornwood High School** — 2.6 mi away, 6.37% (this school: 11.74%)
- **Wilson Elementary School** — 3.5 mi away, 4.03% (this school: 11.74%)
- **Grissom Elem School** — 3.7 mi away, 9.28% (this school: 11.74%)

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