# Wanda Kendall Elem School

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Full profile (human-readable): https://us.il.whatschool.ai/en/il/school/wanda-kendall-elem-school-watseka

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `172017002268`
- **School name**: Wanda Kendall Elem School
- **Location**: Watseka, IL 60970
- **Address**: 535 E Porter Ave
- **District**: Iroquois County CUSD 9 (LEAID `1720170`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Coordinates**: 40.76962, -87.72424
- **Phone**: (815)432-2112

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 122
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 9
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 13.6:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 77.9%

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 21.8% (38 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**: 12.6%
- **Black/African American**: 0.0%
- **Asian**: 0.6%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 82.2%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 4.6%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 76.1%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 25.9% — 45 students


## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 12 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 8 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 6 students
- **Developmental Delay**: 4 students
- **Autism**: 3 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 3 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 2 students
- **Traumatic Brain Injury**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $18,766
- **Federal share**: $849
- **State + local share**: $17,917
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $19,348,913
- **Federal share**: 16.9%
- **State share**: 48.2%
- **Local share**: 34.9%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $8,295,652

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $63,866
- **Poverty rate**: 18.5%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 13.6%
- **Unemployment**: 7.6%
- **Median gross rent**: $833
- **Foreign-born residents**: 0.8%
- **Single-parent households**: 17.0%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 23.3 miles (CROSS BROTHERS PAIL RECYCLING PEMBROKE)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 2
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 4
- **Nearest brownfield**: 18.65 miles (NEWTON COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: WATSEKA
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2025-07-01

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Watseka Comm High School** — 0.2 mi away, 16.86% (this school: 21.84%)
- **Crescent City Grade School** — 6.8 mi away, 9.68% (this school: 21.84%)
- **Donovan Elem School** — 9.4 mi away, 14.29% (this school: 21.84%)
- **Donovan Jr High School** — 9.9 mi away, 17.31% (this school: 21.84%)
- **Donovan Sr High School** — 9.9 mi away, 16.05% (this school: 21.84%)

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