# Western Avenue Elem School

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `171542001853`
- **School name**: Western Avenue Elem School
- **Location**: Flossmoor, IL 60422
- **Address**: 940 Western Ave
- **District**: Flossmoor SD 161 (LEAID `1715420`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Coordinates**: 41.54492, -87.67549
- **Phone**: (708)647-7400

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 499
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 31
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 16.1:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 39.3%

## 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 10.4% (47 students) [source: crdc_2020]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 12.4%
- **Black/African American**: 0.7%
- **Asian**: 48.7%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 30.1%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 8.0%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 33.7%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 8.1% — 36 students


## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 9 students
- **Developmental Delay**: 7 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 7 students
- **Autism**: 5 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 5 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $16,332
- **Federal share**: $922
- **State + local share**: $15,410
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $17,305,495
- **Federal share**: 8.3%
- **State share**: 29.8%
- **Local share**: 61.9%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $7,457,378

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $141,250
- **Poverty rate**: 2.5%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 60.3%
- **Unemployment**: 4.9%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,063
- **Foreign-born residents**: 7.7%
- **Single-parent households**: 13.3%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 9.6 miles (ESTECH GENERAL CHEMICAL COMPANY)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 56
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.74 miles (320 22 E 14TH ST TEN CAR GARAGE)

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

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 7.81133 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 6.5 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Brookwood Jr High School** — 3.6 mi away, 6.49% (this school: 10.4%)
- **Colin Powell Middle Sch** — 3.9 mi away, 8.53% (this school: 10.4%)
- **Thornwood High School** — 4.5 mi away, 6.37% (this school: 10.4%)
- **Arbor Park Middle School** — 4.6 mi away, 10.07% (this school: 10.4%)
- **Southland College Prep Chtr HS** — 5.0 mi away, 4.33% (this school: 10.4%)

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