# Zion-Benton Twnshp Hi Sch

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `174389004357`
- **School name**: Zion-Benton Twnshp Hi Sch
- **Location**: Zion, IL 60099
- **Address**: 3901 21st St
- **District**: Zion-Benton Twp HSD 126 (LEAID `1743890`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 42.45605, -87.86682
- **Phone**: (847)731-9303
- **Wikidata QID**: Q8072480 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zion-Benton_Township_High_School
- **Founded**: 1939

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 2,114
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 136
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 15.5:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 62.0%

## 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**: 88.8% (cohort of 581)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 652

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 41.2% (917 students) [source: crdc_2020]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.1%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 51.1%
- **Black/African American**: 1.5%
- **Asian**: 26.6%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 15.8%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 4.9%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 53.9%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 15.4% — 343 students


## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 178 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 61 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 49 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 44 students
- **Autism**: 31 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 10 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 8 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 3 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students
- **Traumatic Brain Injury**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $20,619
- **Federal share**: $1,509
- **State + local share**: $19,111
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $29,090,874
- **Federal share**: 8.3%
- **State share**: 44.9%
- **Local share**: 46.8%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $10,383,385

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $69,734
- **Poverty rate**: 16.5%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 20.4%
- **Unemployment**: 7.3%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,069
- **Foreign-born residents**: 17.1%
- **Single-parent households**: 17.3%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 4.7 miles (YEOMAN CREEK LANDFILL)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 2
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 9
- **Nearest brownfield**: 6.39 miles (C AND L INDUSTRIAL CLEANERS)

### 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**: 4.5 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Beulah Park Elem School** — 1.3 mi away, 26.89% (this school: 41.21%)
- **New Tech High - Zion-Benton East** — 1.7 mi away, 17.33% (this school: 41.21%)
- **Zion Central Middle School** — 1.7 mi away, 36.9% (this school: 41.21%)
- **Kenneth Murphy School** — 2.1 mi away, 15.32% (this school: 41.21%)
- **Prairie Trail School** — 2.2 mi away, 18.39% (this school: 41.21%)

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