# Byron Middle School

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `170801000408`
- **School name**: Byron Middle School
- **Location**: Byron, IL 61010
- **Address**: 325 N Colfax St
- **District**: Byron CUSD 226 (LEAID `1708010`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Coordinates**: 42.13418, -89.26687
- **Phone**: (815)234-5491

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 366
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 28
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 13.1:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 21.0%

## 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 13.9% (48 students) [source: crdc_2020]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 4
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 27.4%

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 21 students
- **Autism**: 7 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 7 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 5 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 5 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 4 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 2 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 2 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $16,701
- **Federal share**: $373
- **State + local share**: $16,328
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $26,051,144
- **Federal share**: 4.5%
- **State share**: 20.4%
- **Local share**: 75.1%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $9,874,832

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $82,823
- **Poverty rate**: 8.6%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 29.0%
- **Unemployment**: 4.6%
- **Median gross rent**: $951
- **Foreign-born residents**: 3.1%
- **Single-parent households**: 11.5%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 3.9 miles (BYRON SALVAGE YARD)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 1
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 2
- **Nearest brownfield**: 11.71 miles (FORMER ROCKFORD PRODUCTS)

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

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 7.36768 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 12.9 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Byron High School 9-12** — 0.2 mi away, 11.31% (this school: 13.95%)
- **Highland Elem School** — 4.9 mi away, 4.32% (this school: 13.95%)
- **Dorothy Simon Elem School** — 9.0 mi away, 4.41% (this school: 13.95%)
- **Oregon Elem Sch** — 9.2 mi away, 7.25% (this school: 13.95%)
- **German Valley Grade School** — 12.1 mi away, 9.09% (this school: 13.95%)

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