# Benton Cons High School

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `170597000278`
- **School name**: Benton Cons High School
- **Location**: Benton, IL 62812
- **Address**: 511 E Main St
- **District**: Benton Cons HSD 103 (LEAID `1705970`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 37.99697, -88.91275
- **Phone**: (618)439-3103
- **Wikidata QID**: Q14687398 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benton_Consolidated_High_School

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 604
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 44
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 13.7:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 51.2%

## 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**: 83.7% (cohort of 135)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 260

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 23.4% (129 students) [source: crdc_2020]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 2
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 3.6%
- **Black/African American**: 0.4%
- **Asian**: 0.5%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 92.0%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 3.4%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 52.3%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 16.0% — 88 students


## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 46 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 14 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 10 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 3 students
- **Autism**: 2 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students
- **Traumatic Brain Injury**: 1 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $15,769
- **Federal share**: $2,668
- **State + local share**: $13,101
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $22,692,177
- **Federal share**: 11.8%
- **State share**: 47.3%
- **Local share**: 40.9%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $9,688,776

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $54,929
- **Poverty rate**: 18.8%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 23.0%
- **Unemployment**: 6.2%
- **Median gross rent**: $731
- **Foreign-born residents**: 2.8%
- **Single-parent households**: 20.2%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 21.7 miles (SANGAMO ELECTRIC DUMP CRAB ORCHARD NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE USDOI)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 1
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 4
- **Nearest brownfield**: 14.99 miles (ODUM READY MX CONCRETE PARCEL 1009)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: BENTON
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 3
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2025-10-13

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 7.86974 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 16.7 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Benton Grade Sch 5-8** — 0.6 mi away, 22.65% (this school: 23.41%)
- **Benton Grade Sch K-4** — 0.7 mi away, 15.27% (this school: 23.41%)
- **Denning Elementary School** — 6.6 mi away, 13.7% (this school: 23.41%)
- **Ewing-Northern Elem School** — 7.2 mi away, 5.5% (this school: 23.41%)
- **Christopher Elem School** — 8.2 mi away, 7.88% (this school: 23.41%)

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