# Jefferson Elem School

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `170960000569`
- **School name**: Jefferson Elem School
- **Location**: Charleston, IL 61920
- **Address**: 801 Jefferson Ave
- **District**: Charleston CUSD 1 (LEAID `1709600`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 4–6
- **Coordinates**: 39.49760, -88.17380
- **Phone**: (217)639-7000

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 698
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 43
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 16.2:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 51.6%

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (IL IAR)**: 30.1% proficient
- **Math (IL IAR)**: 10.2% proficient
- **Science (IL IAR)**: 46.4% proficient

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 19.9% (128 students) [source: crdc_2020]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 33
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 4.7%
- **Black/African American**: 1.7%
- **Asian**: 6.2%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 80.0%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 7.4%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 50.4%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 16.6% — 106 students


## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 58 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 14 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 10 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 9 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 4 students
- **Autism**: 3 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 3 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $12,297
- **Federal share**: $863
- **State + local share**: $11,435
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $16,520,045
- **Federal share**: 14.0%
- **State share**: 39.1%
- **Local share**: 46.9%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $6,027,097

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $50,380
- **Poverty rate**: 22.4%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 20.7%
- **Unemployment**: 10.9%
- **Median gross rent**: $845
- **Foreign-born residents**: 1.7%
- **Single-parent households**: 18.0%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 26.0 miles (VELSICOL CHEMICAL CORP MARSHALL PLANT)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 2
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 6
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.45 miles (LINCOLN SCHOOL)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: CHARLESTON
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 5
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2025-09-01

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Charleston Middle School** — 0.8 mi away, 14.94% (this school: 19.94%)
- **Mark Twain Elem School** — 0.8 mi away, 18.59% (this school: 19.94%)
- **Ashmore Elem School** — 8.5 mi away, 19.1% (this school: 19.94%)
- **Kansas Elem School** — 12.9 mi away, 17.27% (this school: 19.94%)
- **Lake Crest Elem School** — 13.7 mi away, 8.14% (this school: 19.94%)

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