# Waterloo High School

*Machine-readable school profile — served at https://us.il.whatschool.ai/en/il/school/waterloo-high-school-waterloo/llm*

Full profile (human-readable): https://us.il.whatschool.ai/en/il/school/waterloo-high-school-waterloo

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `174107004113`
- **School name**: Waterloo High School
- **Location**: Waterloo, IL 62298
- **Address**: 505 E Bulldog
- **District**: Waterloo CUSD 5 (LEAID `1741070`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 38.31897, -90.13902
- **Phone**: (618)939-3455
- **Wikidata QID**: Q7974239 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterloo_High_School_(Illinois)
- **Founded**: 1895

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 876
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 51
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 17.2:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 20.0%

## 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**: 94.8% (cohort of 213)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 224

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 7.5% (64 students) [source: crdc_2020]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 22
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.4%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 1.9%
- **Black/African American**: 0.2%
- **Asian**: 0.4%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 94.1%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.2%
- **Two or more races**: 2.8%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 20.0%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 13.3% — 114 students


## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 49 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 38 students
- **Autism**: 7 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 5 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 4 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 3 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 3 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $11,109
- **Federal share**: $569
- **State + local share**: $10,540
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $15,525,529
- **Federal share**: 7.5%
- **State share**: 30.8%
- **Local share**: 61.7%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $7,819,110

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $94,487
- **Poverty rate**: 4.7%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 31.9%
- **Unemployment**: 1.6%
- **Median gross rent**: $790
- **Foreign-born residents**: 0.4%
- **Single-parent households**: 9.1%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 18.5 miles (SAUGET AREA 1)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 0
- **Nearest brownfield**: 13.56 miles (17 ACRES UNDEVELOPED LAND)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: WATERLOO
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2025-04-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 6.4794 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 16.7 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Gardner Elementary School** — 1.2 mi away, 4.23% (this school: 7.49%)
- **Rogers Elem School** — 1.3 mi away, 4.72% (this school: 7.49%)
- **Waterloo Junior High School** — 1.4 mi away, 4.7% (this school: 7.49%)
- **W J Zahnow Elem School** — 1.7 mi away, 5.05% (this school: 7.49%)
- **Valmeyer High School** — 7.6 mi away, 5.67% (this school: 7.49%)

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