# Central Elem School

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `171212001461`
- **School name**: Central Elem School
- **Location**: Des Plaines, IL 60016
- **Address**: 1526 E Thacker St
- **District**: CCSD 62 (LEAID `1712120`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–5
- **Coordinates**: 42.03765, -87.88628
- **Phone**: (847)824-1575

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 322
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 28
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 11.5:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 37.9%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: IL Report Card
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Exemplary
- **Indicators**:
  - overall: Exemplary

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2025
- **Overall (IL Report Card)**: 82.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 5.2% (14 students) [source: crdc_2020]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 26.8%
- **Black/African American**: 4.7%
- **Asian**: 4.3%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 57.1%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.4%
- **Two or more races**: 6.7%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 31.0%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 14.6% — 39 students


## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Developmental Delay**: 6 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 4 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 4 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 4 students
- **Autism**: 3 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $23,394
- **Federal share**: $1,329
- **State + local share**: $22,065
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $31,909,048
- **Federal share**: 7.7%
- **State share**: 25.4%
- **Local share**: 66.9%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $15,490,196

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $76,995
- **Poverty rate**: 10.0%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 34.8%
- **Unemployment**: 7.1%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,460
- **Foreign-born residents**: 26.9%
- **Single-parent households**: 6.5%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 19.8 miles (KERR MCGEE RESIDENTIAL AREAS)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 2
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 147
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.68 miles (DESPLAINES RAND AND PINE ROAD PROPERTY)

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

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 7.25566 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 2.0 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Forest Elem School** — 1.2 mi away, 4.98% (this school: 5.22%)
- **Franklin Elementary School** — 1.6 mi away, 1.5% (this school: 5.22%)
- **Iroquois Community School** — 1.9 mi away, 1.69% (this school: 5.22%)
- **George B Carpenter Elem School** — 2.4 mi away, 1.88% (this school: 5.22%)
- **Lions Park Elem School** — 2.7 mi away, 4.11% (this school: 5.22%)

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