# Harriet Gifford Elem School

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `171371001676`
- **School name**: Harriet Gifford Elem School
- **Location**: Elgin, IL 60123
- **Address**: 240 S Clifton Ave
- **District**: SD U-46 (LEAID `1713710`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Coordinates**: 42.02816, -88.31028
- **Phone**: (847)888-5195

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 460
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 28
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 16.4:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 79.1%

## 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 24.4% (111 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**: 71.3%
- **Black/African American**: 0.8%
- **Asian**: 16.8%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 8.9%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 2.3%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 68.6%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 17.3% — 79 students


## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 32 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 19 students
- **Developmental Delay**: 18 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 8 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 8 students
- **Autism**: 3 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 2 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 1 students
- **Traumatic Brain Injury**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $16,232
- **Federal share**: $2,389
- **State + local share**: $13,843
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $21,820,321
- **Federal share**: 7.5%
- **State share**: 48.7%
- **Local share**: 43.9%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $10,822,496

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $73,721
- **Poverty rate**: 25.0%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 10.3%
- **Unemployment**: 9.3%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,130
- **Foreign-born residents**: 18.0%
- **Single-parent households**: 17.8%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 3.7 miles (TRI COUNTY LANDFILL CO WASTE MANAGEMENT OF ILLINOIS INC)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 4
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 44
- **Nearest brownfield**: 5.20 miles (CAFT METAL SPINNING)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: ELGIN
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2025-10-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 8.41763 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 1.5 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Hillcrest Elem School** — 1.1 mi away, 17.79% (this school: 24.4%)
- **Fox Meadow Elementary School** — 1.8 mi away, 4.17% (this school: 24.4%)
- **Kenyon Woods Middle School** — 2.1 mi away, 16.97% (this school: 24.4%)
- **McKinley Elem School** — 2.2 mi away, 15.54% (this school: 24.4%)
- **Ronald D O Neal** — 2.3 mi away, 22.67% (this school: 24.4%)

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