# Wells Community Academy HS

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `170993001192`
- **School name**: Wells Community Academy HS
- **Location**: Chicago, IL 60622
- **Address**: 936 N Ashland Ave
- **District**: Chicago Public Schools Dist 299 (LEAID `1709930`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 41.89920, -87.66830
- **Phone**: (773)534-7010
- **Wikidata QID**: Q7981630 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wells_Community_Academy_High_School
- **Founded**: 1935

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 398
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 33
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 12.1:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 76.9%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: IL Report Card
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Comprehensive
- **Indicators**:
  - overall: Comprehensive

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 73.7% (cohort of 99)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 166

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 46.9% (175 students) [source: crdc_2020]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 47.2%
- **Black/African American**: 0.0%
- **Asian**: 47.5%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 3.8%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 1.6%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 83.4%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 26.3% — 98 students


## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 76 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 21 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 15 students
- **Autism**: 12 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 12 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 2 students
- **Traumatic Brain Injury**: 2 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $23,207
- **Federal share**: $4,629
- **State + local share**: $18,578
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $25,576,784
- **Federal share**: 17.4%
- **State share**: 29.9%
- **Local share**: 52.8%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $13,747,371

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $205,338
- **Poverty rate**: 5.8%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 84.0%
- **Unemployment**: 3.0%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,066
- **Foreign-born residents**: 12.4%
- **Single-parent households**: 13.4%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 15.6 miles (ACME STEEL COKE PLANT)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 28
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 231
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.88 miles (951 W HURON)

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

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 8.75889 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 2.9 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **LaSalle II Lang Acad Elem Sch** — 0.4 mi away, 6.4% (this school: 46.92%)
- **Talcott Elem School** — 0.5 mi away, 10.4% (this school: 46.92%)
- **Otis Elem School** — 0.6 mi away, 29.69% (this school: 46.92%)
- **Ogden Int High School** — 0.6 mi away, 43.16% (this school: 46.92%)
- **Rowe Elementary** — 0.6 mi away, 28.62% (this school: 46.92%)

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