# Amundsen High School

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `170993000587`
- **School name**: Amundsen High School
- **Location**: Chicago, IL 60625
- **Address**: 5110 N Damen Ave
- **District**: Chicago Public Schools Dist 299 (LEAID `1709930`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 41.97520, -87.68010
- **Phone**: (773)534-2320
- **Wikidata QID**: Q4748966 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amundsen_High_School
- **Founded**: 1929

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 1,507
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 101
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 14.9:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 37.2%

## 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**: 86.8% (cohort of 387)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 549

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 42.9% (638 students) [source: crdc_2020]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.5%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 53.6%
- **Black/African American**: 8.5%
- **Asian**: 7.7%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 26.0%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.3%
- **Two or more races**: 3.4%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 40.5%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 15.8% — 236 students


## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 101 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 22 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 20 students
- **Autism**: 18 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 18 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 1 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $16,988
- **Federal share**: $2,272
- **State + local share**: $14,716
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $25,576,784
- **Federal share**: 17.4%
- **State share**: 29.9%
- **Local share**: 52.8%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $13,747,371

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $94,541
- **Poverty rate**: 7.7%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 79.1%
- **Unemployment**: 4.9%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,691
- **Foreign-born residents**: 15.1%
- **Single-parent households**: 2.5%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 20.7 miles (ACME STEEL COKE PLANT)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 4
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 135
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.28 miles (RONAN PARK EXPANSION 2954 W LAWRENCE)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: CHICAGO
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2025-07-02

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 7.2087 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 3.6 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Chappell Elem School** — 0.2 mi away, 4.12% (this school: 42.85%)
- **Devry Advantage Academy High Schl** — 0.5 mi away, 19.62% (this school: 42.85%)
- **McPherson Elem School** — 0.5 mi away, 10.99% (this school: 42.85%)
- **Asian Human Srvcs-Passage Chrtr** — 0.7 mi away, 11.72% (this school: 42.85%)
- **Budlong Elem School** — 0.9 mi away, 9.25% (this school: 42.85%)

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