# Walter F Fierke Ed Center

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `173903003962`
- **School name**: Walter F Fierke Ed Center
- **Location**: Oak Forest, IL 60452
- **Address**: 6535 Victoria Dr
- **District**: CCSD 146 (LEAID `1739030`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Coordinates**: 41.60926, -87.77892
- **Phone**: (708)614-4520

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 443
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 33
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 13.4:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 35.9%

## 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 11.4% (42 students) [source: crdc_2020]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.3%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 23.2%
- **Black/African American**: 1.1%
- **Asian**: 6.3%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 64.1%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 5.0%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 30.9%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 17.4% — 64 students


## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 14 students
- **Developmental Delay**: 9 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 9 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 7 students
- **Autism**: 5 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 2 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $17,558
- **Federal share**: $673
- **State + local share**: $16,885
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $24,105,489
- **Federal share**: 8.1%
- **State share**: 27.0%
- **Local share**: 64.9%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $13,061,321

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $74,205
- **Poverty rate**: 4.1%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 29.7%
- **Unemployment**: 3.6%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,291
- **Foreign-born residents**: 19.7%
- **Single-parent households**: 6.3%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 10.8 miles (LENZ OIL SERVICE INC)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 37
- **Nearest brownfield**: 2.46 miles (CHEVY PROPERTY)

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

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 6.88793 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 4.9 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Kimberly Heights Elem School** — 1.4 mi away, 8.23% (this school: 11.44%)
- **John A Bannes Elem School** — 2.0 mi away, 8.18% (this school: 11.44%)
- **Arbor Park Middle School** — 2.6 mi away, 10.07% (this school: 11.44%)
- **Virgil I Grissom Middle School** — 2.6 mi away, 7.01% (this school: 11.44%)
- **Prairie Elem School** — 2.7 mi away, 4.38% (this school: 11.44%)

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