# Alan B Shepard Middle School

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `171198001437`
- **School name**: Alan B Shepard Middle School
- **Location**: Deerfield, IL 60015
- **Address**: 440 Grove Ave
- **District**: Deerfield SD 109 (LEAID `1711980`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Coordinates**: 42.16110, -87.85180
- **Phone**: (847)948-0620

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 476
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 49
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 9.7:1

## 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 3.9% (20 students) [source: crdc_2020]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 1
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 2.3%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 7.1%
- **Black/African American**: 4.8%
- **Asian**: 0.8%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 79.7%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.4%
- **Two or more races**: 4.8%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 14.3% — 73 students


## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 24 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 13 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 9 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 8 students
- **Autism**: 6 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $24,524
- **Federal share**: $377
- **State + local share**: $24,147
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $27,817,917
- **Federal share**: 3.2%
- **State share**: 22.5%
- **Local share**: 74.3%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $15,311,726

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $188,750
- **Poverty rate**: 1.4%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 78.5%
- **Unemployment**: 4.0%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,981
- **Foreign-born residents**: 10.7%
- **Single-parent households**: 7.1%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 14.2 miles (OUTBOARD MARINE CORP)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 3
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 62
- **Nearest brownfield**: 8.04 miles (DESPLAINES RAND AND PINE ROAD PROPERTY)

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

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 7.29172 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 3.1 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **South Park Elem School** — 0.7 mi away, 0.25% (this school: 3.94%)
- **Kipling Elem School** — 0.7 mi away, 2.57% (this school: 3.94%)
- **Wilmot Elem School** — 0.8 mi away, 3.13% (this school: 3.94%)
- **Hickory Point Elem School** — 1.5 mi away, 3.09% (this school: 3.94%)
- **Shabonee School** — 1.8 mi away, 1.33% (this school: 3.94%)

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