# Vernon Hills High School

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `172283004092`
- **School name**: Vernon Hills High School
- **Location**: Vernon Hills, IL 60061
- **Address**: 145 Lakeview Pkwy
- **District**: CHSD 128 (LEAID `1722830`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 42.22740, -87.94880
- **Phone**: (847)932-2000
- **Wikidata QID**: Q7922148 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vernon_Hills_High_School
- **Founded**: 1999

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 1,419
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 114
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 12.4:1

## 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

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 96.5% (cohort of 403)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 720

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 5.2% (82 students) [source: crdc_2020]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 1
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.2%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 14.7%
- **Black/African American**: 21.8%
- **Asian**: 2.5%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 57.6%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.4%
- **Two or more races**: 2.8%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 10.4% — 163 students


## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 54 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 41 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 34 students
- **Autism**: 13 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 10 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 4 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 3 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 3 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $30,471
- **Federal share**: $543
- **State + local share**: $29,927
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $35,277,464
- **Federal share**: 1.5%
- **State share**: 22.7%
- **Local share**: 75.8%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $18,756,475

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $158,158
- **Poverty rate**: 2.4%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 68.8%
- **Unemployment**: 2.0%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,800
- **Foreign-born residents**: 20.0%
- **Single-parent households**: 3.3%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 10.3 miles (WAUCONDA SAND GRAVEL)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 2
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 39
- **Nearest brownfield**: 7.51 miles (FORMER NORTH CHICAGO INN)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: VERNON HILLS - LAKE CO PW
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2024-07-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 7.29172 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 9.8 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Hawthorn Elem School South** — 1.3 mi away, 3.63% (this school: 5.22%)
- **Half Day School** — 2.1 mi away, 1% (this school: 5.22%)
- **Twin Groves Middle School** — 2.4 mi away, 1.34% (this school: 5.22%)
- **Meridian School** — 2.7 mi away, 1.15% (this school: 5.22%)
- **Laura B Sprague School** — 3.1 mi away, 1.62% (this school: 5.22%)

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