# Gardner Elem School

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `171623001941`
- **School name**: Gardner Elem School
- **Location**: Gardner, IL 60424
- **Address**: 598 N Elm St
- **District**: Gardner CCSD 72C (LEAID `1716230`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Coordinates**: 41.19373, -88.30581
- **Phone**: (815)237-2313

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 146
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 16
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 9.1:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 51.4%

## 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 13.5% (22 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**: 4.7%
- **Black/African American**: 0.0%
- **Asian**: 0.0%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 91.1%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.6%
- **Two or more races**: 3.6%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 45.5%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 23.1% — 38 students


## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Other Health Impairment**: 12 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 11 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 6 students
- **Developmental Delay**: 2 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 1 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $17,730
- **Federal share**: $1,132
- **State + local share**: $16,598
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $21,046,667
- **Federal share**: 4.1%
- **State share**: 54.5%
- **Local share**: 41.4%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $9,326,667

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $80,547
- **Poverty rate**: 12.5%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 15.5%
- **Unemployment**: 7.6%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,087
- **Foreign-born residents**: 0.7%
- **Single-parent households**: 20.2%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 14.8 miles (JOLIET ARMY AMMUNITION PLANT MANUFACTURING AREA)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 0
- **Nearest brownfield**: 11.73 miles (FORMER CELOTEX DUMP)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: GARDNER
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2020-12-30

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 6.8725 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 6.3 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **South Wilmington Grade School** — 2.0 mi away, 5.95% (this school: 13.5%)
- **Coal City Early Childhood Center** — 5.7 mi away, 5.39% (this school: 13.5%)
- **Coal City Middle School** — 5.9 mi away, 9.55% (this school: 13.5%)
- **Reed-Custer Elementary School** — 6.4 mi away, 12.63% (this school: 13.5%)
- **Coal City Intermediate School** — 6.6 mi away, 4.02% (this school: 13.5%)

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