# Vernon L Barkstall Elementary Sch

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `170942002361`
- **School name**: Vernon L Barkstall Elementary Sch
- **Location**: Champaign, IL 61822
- **Address**: 2201 Hallbeck Dr
- **District**: Champaign CUSD 4 (LEAID `1709420`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–5
- **Coordinates**: 40.07378, -88.28350
- **Phone**: (217)373-5580

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 426
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 32
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 13.3:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 43.2%

## 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

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 18.8% (81 students) [source: crdc_2020]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.2%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 6.1%
- **Black/African American**: 15.9%
- **Asian**: 34.4%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 34.9%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.2%
- **Two or more races**: 8.2%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 42.4%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 16.2% — 69 students


## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 11 students
- **Autism**: 9 students
- **Developmental Delay**: 7 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 7 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 6 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 2 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $17,178
- **Federal share**: $2,004
- **State + local share**: $15,174
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $22,215,238
- **Federal share**: 10.7%
- **State share**: 26.0%
- **Local share**: 63.3%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $10,743,797

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $126,495
- **Poverty rate**: 4.0%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 77.3%
- **Unemployment**: 5.0%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,026
- **Foreign-born residents**: 21.6%
- **Single-parent households**: 10.8%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 33.5 miles (HEGELER ZINC)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 7
- **Nearest brownfield**: 15.74 miles (PEPSIN MANUFACTURING FORMER)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: IL AMERICAN-CHAMPAIGN
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 6.90094 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 4.1 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Carrie Busey Elem School** — 2.5 mi away, 12.24% (this school: 18.84%)
- **South Side Elementary School** — 2.8 mi away, 15.75% (this school: 18.84%)
- **Leal Elem School** — 4.5 mi away, 16.57% (this school: 18.84%)
- **Urbana Middle School** — 4.6 mi away, 14.91% (this school: 18.84%)
- **Unity West** — 7.5 mi away, 18.75% (this school: 18.84%)

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