# Thornton Township High School

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `173897003955`
- **School name**: Thornton Township High School
- **Location**: Harvey, IL 60426
- **Address**: 15001 Broadway Ave
- **District**: Thornton Twp HSD 205 (LEAID `1738970`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 41.61606, -87.64373
- **Phone**: (708)225-4150
- **Wikidata QID**: Q7796561 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thornton_Township_High_School
- **Founded**: 1899

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 1,697
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 119
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 14.3:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 88.3%

## 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**: 80.5% (cohort of 406)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 223

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 13.2% (224 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**: 29.4%
- **Black/African American**: 1.9%
- **Asian**: 67.4%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 0.2%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.1%
- **Two or more races**: 0.5%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 92.8%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 13.9% — 235 students


## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 92 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 71 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 57 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 11 students
- **Autism**: 10 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 4 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 3 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 2 students
- **Traumatic Brain Injury**: 2 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $29,246
- **Federal share**: $2,972
- **State + local share**: $26,274
### 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**: $27,379
- **Poverty rate**: 26.9%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 12.7%
- **Unemployment**: 9.2%
- **Median gross rent**: $941
- **Foreign-born residents**: 14.4%
- **Single-parent households**: 17.8%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 5.8 miles (LAKE CALUMET CLUSTER)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 6
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 92
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.25 miles (PETERLIN BUILDING CORP)

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

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 7.81133 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 5.2 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Brooks Middle School** — 0.8 mi away, 0.34% (this school: 13.23%)
- **Thornridge High School** — 2.4 mi away, 11.74% (this school: 13.23%)
- **Berger-Vandenberg Elem School** — 3.0 mi away, 9.34% (this school: 13.23%)
- **Thornwood High School** — 3.0 mi away, 6.37% (this school: 13.23%)
- **Calumet Elem School** — 3.1 mi away, 2.5% (this school: 13.23%)

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