# Dirksen Elementary School

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `173108005048`
- **School name**: Dirksen Elementary School
- **Location**: Pekin, IL 61554
- **Address**: 501 Maywood Ave
- **District**: Pekin PSD 108 (LEAID `1731080`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–3
- **Coordinates**: 40.57234, -89.61267
- **Phone**: (309)477-4711

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 165
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 10
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 16.5:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 72.7%

## 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 25.2% (39 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**: 6.2%
- **Black/African American**: 0.0%
- **Asian**: 2.1%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 82.8%
- **Pacific Islander**: 1.4%
- **Two or more races**: 7.6%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 78.4%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 22.1% — 34 students


## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 13 students
- **Developmental Delay**: 9 students
- **Autism**: 2 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 2 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 1 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $15,919
- **Federal share**: $3,034
- **State + local share**: $12,885
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $20,072,979
- **Federal share**: 12.2%
- **State share**: 42.7%
- **Local share**: 45.1%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $8,947,782

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $49,792
- **Poverty rate**: 23.7%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 19.2%
- **Unemployment**: 9.4%
- **Median gross rent**: $658
- **Foreign-born residents**: 2.4%
- **Single-parent households**: 15.9%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 46.7 miles (GALESBURG KOPPERS CO)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 14
- **Nearest brownfield**: 6.46 miles (3560 SW ADAMS STREET)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: IL AMERICAN-PEKIN
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2016-07-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 7.31067 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 8.7 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Willow Elem School** — 0.5 mi away, 24.03% (this school: 25.16%)
- **Scott Altman Primary School** — 1.7 mi away, 13.02% (this school: 25.16%)
- **Wilson Intermediate School** — 2.0 mi away, 24.01% (this school: 25.16%)
- **Georgetown Middle School** — 3.3 mi away, 9.92% (this school: 25.16%)
- **Marquette Elem School** — 3.3 mi away, 8.89% (this school: 25.16%)

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