# Benjamin Elem School

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `172862006130`
- **School name**: Benjamin Elem School
- **Location**: Bloomington, IL 61705
- **Address**: 6006 Ireland Grove Rd
- **District**: McLean County USD 5 (LEAID `1728620`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–5
- **Coordinates**: 40.45926, -88.86727
- **Phone**: (309)557-4410

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 607
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 33
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 18.4:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 11.0%

## 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

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 2.9% (17 students) [source: crdc_2020]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.7%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 2.8%
- **Black/African American**: 31.5%
- **Asian**: 6.4%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 56.2%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 2.4%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 10.3%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 10.9% — 65 students


## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Other Health Impairment**: 9 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 8 students
- **Developmental Delay**: 6 students
- **Autism**: 4 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 4 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 1 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $10,540
- **Federal share**: $753
- **State + local share**: $9,788
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $17,536,647
- **Federal share**: 7.4%
- **State share**: 29.2%
- **Local share**: 63.3%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $9,100,135

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $143,547
- **Poverty rate**: 5.3%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 59.3%
- **Unemployment**: 0.9%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,071
- **Foreign-born residents**: 4.4%
- **Single-parent households**: 7.1%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 61.7 miles (OTTAWA RADIATION AREAS)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 1
- **Nearest brownfield**: 33.71 miles (PEPSIN HILL BROWNFIELD PROJECT)

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

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 6.61974 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 8.0 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Tri-Valley Elem School** — 4.4 mi away, 1.76% (this school: 2.87%)
- **Tri-Valley High School** — 4.5 mi away, 2.63% (this school: 2.87%)
- **Tri-Valley Middle School** — 4.6 mi away, 1.38% (this school: 2.87%)
- **Grove Elementary School** — 5.6 mi away, 2.61% (this school: 2.87%)
- **Thomas Metcalf School** — 7.5 mi away, 1.54% (this school: 2.87%)

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