# Dennis Lab School

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `171185001399`
- **School name**: Dennis Lab School
- **Location**: Decatur, IL 62523
- **Address**: 300 E Eldorado St
- **District**: Decatur SD 61 (LEAID `1711850`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–8
- **Coordinates**: 39.81598, -88.95777
- **Phone**: (217)362-3511

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 579
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 35
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 16.5:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 84.6%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (IL IAR)**: 8.6% proficient
- **Math (IL IAR)**: 3.6% proficient
- **Science (IL IAR)**: 19.1% proficient

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 58.9% (374 students) [source: crdc_2020]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.2%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 1.5%
- **Black/African American**: 0.2%
- **Asian**: 46.1%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 41.0%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 10.9%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 73.3%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 23.6% — 150 students


## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 27 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 24 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 5 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 5 students
- **Developmental Delay**: 4 students
- **Autism**: 3 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $16,928
- **Federal share**: $2,693
- **State + local share**: $14,236
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $19,130,993
- **Federal share**: 21.4%
- **State share**: 43.3%
- **Local share**: 35.3%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $6,898,547

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $65,450
- **Poverty rate**: 8.0%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 33.0%
- **Unemployment**: 1.4%
- **Median gross rent**: $928
- **Foreign-born residents**: 4.1%
- **Single-parent households**: 5.3%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 26.2 miles (CENTRAL ILLINOIS PUBLIC SERVICE CO)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 2
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 26
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.24 miles (MUELLER PARK AREA)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: DECATUR
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2023-10-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 7.55308 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 3.9 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **American Dreamer STEM Academy** — 1.3 mi away, 32.11% (this school: 58.9%)
- **Johns Hill Magnet School** — 1.6 mi away, 30.96% (this school: 58.9%)
- **Muffley Elem School** — 2.5 mi away, 57.03% (this school: 58.9%)
- **Robertson Charter School** — 3.4 mi away, 53.02% (this school: 58.9%)
- **Michael E Baum Elem School** — 3.6 mi away, 45.56% (this school: 58.9%)

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