# Lake Forest High School

*Machine-readable school profile — served at https://us.il.whatschool.ai/en/il/school/lake-forest-high-school-lake-forest/llm*

Full profile (human-readable): https://us.il.whatschool.ai/en/il/school/lake-forest-high-school-lake-forest

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `172178002452`
- **School name**: Lake Forest High School
- **Location**: Lake Forest, IL 60045
- **Address**: 1285 N McKinley Rd
- **District**: Lake Forest CHSD 115 (LEAID `1721780`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 42.26450, -87.84030
- **Phone**: (847)234-3600
- **Wikidata QID**: Q14634066 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Forest_High_School_(Illinois)
- **Founded**: 1935

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 1,359
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 131
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 10.4:1

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2025
- **Overall (IL Report Card)**: 82.0% proficient

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 99.4% (cohort of 355)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 357

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 3.0% (45 students) [source: crdc_2020]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 1
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.2%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 9.7%
- **Black/African American**: 4.2%
- **Asian**: 1.3%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 79.7%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.1%
- **Two or more races**: 4.8%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 13.1% — 196 students


## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 84 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 41 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 39 students
- **Autism**: 28 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 19 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 4 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 2 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 2 students
- **Traumatic Brain Injury**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $35,119
- **Federal share**: $381
- **State + local share**: $34,738
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $43,664,622
- **Federal share**: 2.7%
- **State share**: 20.5%
- **Local share**: 76.9%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $23,012,270

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $245,114
- **Poverty rate**: 8.3%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 86.9%
- **Unemployment**: 1.8%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,625
- **Foreign-born residents**: 12.2%
- **Single-parent households**: 9.3%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 7.0 miles (OUTBOARD MARINE CORP)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 28
- **Nearest brownfield**: 3.82 miles (VACANT LOT)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: LAKE FOREST
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2023-10-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 7.29172 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 8.9 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Deer Path Middle Sch East** — 1.2 mi away, 1.53% (this school: 3%)
- **Copeland Manor Elem School** — 5.3 mi away, 1.67% (this school: 3%)
- **Laura B Sprague School** — 5.7 mi away, 1.62% (this school: 3%)
- **Adler Park School** — 6.6 mi away, 0.85% (this school: 3%)
- **Libertyville High School** — 6.6 mi away, 2.49% (this school: 3%)

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