# Wells Preparatory Elem Academy

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `170993001614`
- **School name**: Wells Preparatory Elem Academy
- **Location**: Chicago, IL 60653
- **Address**: 249 E 37th St
- **District**: Chicago Public Schools Dist 299 (LEAID `1709930`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Coordinates**: 41.82710, -87.61980
- **Phone**: (773)535-1204

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 308
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 22
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 14.0:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 82.8%

## 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 38.9% (138 students) [source: crdc_2020]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.3%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 4.0%
- **Black/African American**: 0.0%
- **Asian**: 87.1%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 0.3%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 8.3%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 80.3%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 11.5% — 41 students


## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Intellectual Disability**: 7 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 5 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 5 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 5 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 4 students
- **Autism**: 3 students
- **Developmental Delay**: 3 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $23,637
- **Federal share**: $4,045
- **State + local share**: $19,592
### 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**: $68,880
- **Poverty rate**: 21.8%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 40.4%
- **Unemployment**: 13.4%
- **Median gross rent**: $823
- **Foreign-born residents**: 10.0%
- **Single-parent households**: 8.7%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 10.0 miles (ACME STEEL COKE PLANT)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 3
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 140
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.38 miles (PARK BOULEVARD)

### 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**: 7.10667 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 7.1 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Urban Prep Chtr  Bronzeville HS** — 0.4 mi away, 33.83% (this school: 38.87%)
- **James R Doolittle Academy** — 0.5 mi away, 35.32% (this school: 38.87%)
- **Univ of Chicago Chtr-Donoghue** — 0.6 mi away, 27.08% (this school: 38.87%)
- **Pershing Elem Humanities Magnet** — 0.6 mi away, 33.21% (this school: 38.87%)
- **Bronzeville Classical Elem Sch** — 0.6 mi away, 2.99% (this school: 38.87%)

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