# West Middle School

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `173451005448`
- **School name**: West Middle School
- **Location**: Rockford, IL 61103
- **Address**: 1900 N Rockton Ave
- **District**: Rockford SD 205 (LEAID `1734510`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Coordinates**: 42.29290, -89.09770
- **Phone**: (815)966-3200

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 793
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 47
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 16.9:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 79.3%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2025
- **Overall (IL Report Card)**: 32.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 79.6% (794 students) [source: crdc_2020]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 36
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.1%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 16.8%
- **Black/African American**: 0.7%
- **Asian**: 48.4%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 24.8%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 9.1%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 79.6%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 16.1% — 161 students


## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 113 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 16 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 13 students
- **Autism**: 10 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 10 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 9 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $18,511
- **Federal share**: $1,481
- **State + local share**: $17,030
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $21,458,258
- **Federal share**: 13.0%
- **State share**: 49.1%
- **Local share**: 38.0%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $10,279,046

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $45,755
- **Poverty rate**: 31.6%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 4.6%
- **Unemployment**: 12.8%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,126
- **Foreign-born residents**: 8.3%
- **Single-parent households**: 39.3%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 3.6 miles (INTERSTATE POLLUTION CONTROL INC)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 5
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 82
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.62 miles (FORMER EL CARRIZAL RESTAURANT)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: ROCKFORD
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2024-10-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 7.36768 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 1.8 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **R K Welsh Elem School** — 0.5 mi away, 52.39% (this school: 79.56%)
- **Haskell Elementary School** — 0.8 mi away, 42.23% (this school: 79.56%)
- **Conklin Elem School** — 1.3 mi away, 70.89% (this school: 79.56%)
- **West View Elem School** — 1.3 mi away, 42.42% (this school: 79.56%)
- **Galapagos Rockford Charter Sch** — 1.7 mi away, 42.56% (this school: 79.56%)

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