# West Leyden High School

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `172274002522`
- **School name**: West Leyden High School
- **Location**: Northlake, IL 60164
- **Address**: 1000 N Wolf Rd
- **District**: Leyden CHSD 212 (LEAID `1722740`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 41.92660, -87.90530
- **Phone**: (847)451-3154
- **Wikidata QID**: Q14688235 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Leyden_High_School
- **Founded**: 1959

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 1,687
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 117
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 14.4:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 58.6%

## 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

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 84.3% (cohort of 464)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 709

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 21.1% (373 students) [source: crdc_2020]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.8%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 82.3%
- **Black/African American**: 2.1%
- **Asian**: 1.4%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 12.7%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.1%
- **Two or more races**: 0.7%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 41.5%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 14.9% — 262 students


## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 149 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 25 students
- **Autism**: 23 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 23 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 23 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 2 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $26,375
- **Federal share**: $2,134
- **State + local share**: $24,242
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $38,265,545
- **Federal share**: 3.2%
- **State share**: 23.3%
- **Local share**: 73.6%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $14,116,657

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $71,514
- **Poverty rate**: 11.4%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 12.7%
- **Unemployment**: 3.8%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,092
- **Foreign-born residents**: 24.7%
- **Single-parent households**: 14.3%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 15.3 miles (LENZ OIL SERVICE INC)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 15
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 215
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.93 miles (10500 W GRAND AVE)

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 8.27353 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 3.1 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Westdale Elem School** — 0.1 mi away, 11.13% (this school: 21.15%)
- **Roy Elem School** — 0.6 mi away, 10.02% (this school: 21.15%)
- **Whittier Primary School** — 1.2 mi away, 17.37% (this school: 21.15%)
- **Conrad Fischer Elem School** — 1.5 mi away, 14.52% (this school: 21.15%)
- **Scott Elementary School** — 1.6 mi away, 10.22% (this school: 21.15%)

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