# Zion Central Middle School

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `174386004351`
- **School name**: Zion Central Middle School
- **Location**: Zion, IL 60099
- **Address**: 1716 27th St
- **District**: Zion ESD 6 (LEAID `1743860`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Coordinates**: 42.44669, -87.83525
- **Phone**: (847)379-0227

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 330
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 29
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 11.4:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 85.5%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2025
- **Overall (IL Report Card)**: 50.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 36.9% (169 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**: 66.4%
- **Black/African American**: 0.2%
- **Asian**: 26.5%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 3.8%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 3.1%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 74.3%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 12.5% — 57 students


## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 44 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 19 students
- **Autism**: 13 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 11 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 5 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 2 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $24,256
- **Federal share**: $977
- **State + local share**: $23,278
### 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**: $45,074
- **Poverty rate**: 29.3%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 7.7%
- **Unemployment**: 14.1%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,352
- **Foreign-born residents**: 25.6%
- **Single-parent households**: 29.1%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 4.1 miles (YEOMAN CREEK LANDFILL)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 8
- **Nearest brownfield**: 5.82 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**: 4.2 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **New Tech High - Zion-Benton East** — 0.6 mi away, 17.33% (this school: 36.9%)
- **Beulah Park Elem School** — 1.0 mi away, 26.89% (this school: 36.9%)
- **Kenneth Murphy School** — 1.5 mi away, 15.32% (this school: 36.9%)
- **Howe Elementary School** — 1.9 mi away, 25.07% (this school: 36.9%)
- **Oak Crest School** — 2.0 mi away, 11.45% (this school: 36.9%)

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