# Towanda Elem School

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `172862005556`
- **School name**: Towanda Elem School
- **Location**: Towanda, IL 61776
- **Address**: 304 S East St
- **District**: McLean County USD 5 (LEAID `1728620`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–5
- **Coordinates**: 40.56230, -88.89550
- **Phone**: (309)728-2278

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 193
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 13
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 14.8:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 11.9%

## 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 3.9% (7 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**: 2.4%
- **Black/African American**: 10.1%
- **Asian**: 2.4%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 85.2%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 0.0%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 14.1%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 15.4% — 27 students


## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 10 students
- **Developmental Delay**: 5 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 4 students
- **Autism**: 3 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 3 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 1 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $12,463
- **Federal share**: $982
- **State + local share**: $11,481
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $17,536,647
- **Federal share**: 7.4%
- **State share**: 29.2%
- **Local share**: 63.3%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $9,100,135

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $107,500
- **Poverty rate**: 3.5%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 42.5%
- **Unemployment**: 2.8%
- **Median gross rent**: $811
- **Foreign-born residents**: 1.2%
- **Single-parent households**: 8.5%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 54.6 miles (OTTAWA RADIATION AREAS)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 1
- **Nearest brownfield**: 37.63 miles (FORMER METHODIST FAMILY CHILD CARE CENTER PARCEL 6)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: TOWANDA
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2025-10-16

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 6.61974 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 6.1 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Grove Elementary School** — 3.0 mi away, 2.61% (this school: 3.93%)
- **Hudson Elem School** — 5.8 mi away, 1.75% (this school: 3.93%)
- **University High School** — 6.2 mi away, 3.13% (this school: 3.93%)
- **Thomas Metcalf School** — 6.3 mi away, 1.54% (this school: 3.93%)
- **Benjamin Elem School** — 7.3 mi away, 2.87% (this school: 3.93%)

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