# Watseka Junior High School

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `172017000820`
- **School name**: Watseka Junior High School
- **Location**: Watseka, IL 60970
- **Address**: 138 S Belmont Ave
- **District**: Iroquois County CUSD 9 (LEAID `1720170`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Coordinates**: 40.76853, -87.72847
- **Phone**: (815)432-2115

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 202
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 17
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 11.9:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 62.9%

## 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 31.3% (86 students) [source: crdc_2020]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 4
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 12.2%
- **Black/African American**: 0.7%
- **Asian**: 1.1%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 83.3%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 2.6%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 68.2%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 17.4% — 48 students


## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 20 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 10 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 6 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 5 students
- **Autism**: 2 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 2 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 1 students
- **Traumatic Brain Injury**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $18,048
- **Federal share**: $1,553
- **State + local share**: $16,496
### 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)**: 23.4 miles (CROSS BROTHERS PAIL RECYCLING PEMBROKE)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 2
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 4
- **Nearest brownfield**: 18.86 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** — 0.0 mi away, 16.86% (this school: 31.27%)
- **Wanda Kendall Elem School** — 0.2 mi away, 21.84% (this school: 31.27%)
- **Crescent City Grade School** — 6.6 mi away, 9.68% (this school: 31.27%)
- **Donovan Elem School** — 9.6 mi away, 14.29% (this school: 31.27%)
- **Milford Grade School West Campus** — 9.9 mi away, 11.53% (this school: 31.27%)

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