# West Elementary School

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `174386004356`
- **School name**: West Elementary School
- **Location**: Zion, IL 60099
- **Address**: 2412 Jethro Ave
- **District**: Zion ESD 6 (LEAID `1743860`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 3–5
- **Coordinates**: 42.45131, -87.85093
- **Phone**: (847)379-0817

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 339
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 30
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 11.3:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 84.4%

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (IL IAR)**: 6.4% proficient
- **Math (IL IAR)**: 1.9% proficient
- **Science (IL IAR)**: 29.5% proficient

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 48.6% (143 students) [source: crdc_2020]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 1
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 48.6%
- **Black/African American**: 0.0%
- **Asian**: 40.1%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 3.5%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 7.8%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 77.2%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 16.0% — 47 students


## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 24 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 12 students
- **Developmental Delay**: 9 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 8 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 6 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 5 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 4 students
- **Autism**: 2 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $22,422
- **Federal share**: $1,410
- **State + local share**: $21,012
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $28,141,700
- **Federal share**: 10.1%
- **State share**: 57.4%
- **Local share**: 32.5%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $10,457,940

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $66,683
- **Poverty rate**: 21.6%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 16.6%
- **Unemployment**: 4.1%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,195
- **Foreign-born residents**: 15.8%
- **Single-parent households**: 23.4%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 4.3 miles (YEOMAN CREEK LANDFILL)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 2
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 7
- **Nearest brownfield**: 6.22 miles (WAUKEGAN GAS STATION)

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

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 6.02002 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 4.3 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Beulah Park Elem School** — 0.8 mi away, 26.89% (this school: 48.64%)
- **Zion Central Middle School** — 0.9 mi away, 36.9% (this school: 48.64%)
- **Zion-Benton Twnshp Hi Sch** — 0.9 mi away, 41.21% (this school: 48.64%)
- **New Tech High - Zion-Benton East** — 0.9 mi away, 17.33% (this school: 48.64%)
- **Elmwood Elem School** — 1.1 mi away, 41.75% (this school: 48.64%)

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