# Joliet Central High School

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `172061002350`
- **School name**: Joliet Central High School
- **Location**: Joliet, IL 60432
- **Address**: 201 E Jefferson St
- **District**: Joliet Twp HSD 204 (LEAID `1720610`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 41.52620, -88.07450
- **Phone**: (815)727-6740
- **Wikidata QID**: Q6269975 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joliet_Central_High_School
- **Founded**: 1901

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 3,295
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 180
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 18.3:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 77.7%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2025
- **Overall (IL Report Card)**: 50.0% proficient

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 75.2% (cohort of 880)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 1,341

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 69.7% (2,358 students) [source: crdc_2020]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 5
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.4%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 66.5%
- **Black/African American**: 0.3%
- **Asian**: 17.3%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 13.0%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 2.5%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 76.7%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 16.9% — 572 students


## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 287 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 73 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 64 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 57 students
- **Autism**: 39 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 10 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 7 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 5 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 3 students
- **Traumatic Brain Injury**: 2 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $18,230
- **Federal share**: $1,376
- **State + local share**: $16,854
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $24,934,895
- **Federal share**: 7.7%
- **State share**: 28.6%
- **Local share**: 63.7%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $8,358,580

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $22,750
- **Poverty rate**: 44.1%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 14.5%
- **Unemployment**: 18.2%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,095
- **Foreign-born residents**: 30.6%
- **Single-parent households**: 26.4%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 7.7 miles (AMOCO CHEMICALS JOLIET LANDFILL)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 2
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 40
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.38 miles (JCC EAST SIDE FIRING RANGE)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: JOLIET
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 1
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2024-10-17

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 7.83138 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 2.2 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Edna Keith Elem School** — 0.7 mi away, 32.2% (this school: 69.68%)
- **Washington Jr High & Academy Prgm** — 0.7 mi away, 21.62% (this school: 69.68%)
- **Woodland Elem School** — 0.8 mi away, 20.99% (this school: 69.68%)
- **Sator Sanchez Elem School** — 1.2 mi away, 20.88% (this school: 69.68%)
- **Farragut Elem School** — 1.3 mi away, 37.36% (this school: 69.68%)

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