# Pershing Elem School

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `172058002340`
- **School name**: Pershing Elem School
- **Location**: Joliet, IL 60435
- **Address**: 251 N Midland Ave
- **District**: Joliet PSD 86 (LEAID `1720580`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–5
- **Coordinates**: 41.52687, -88.11651
- **Phone**: (815)725-0986

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 621
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 32
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 19.4:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 96.1%

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (IL IAR)**: 13.1% proficient
- **Math (IL IAR)**: 8.3% proficient
- **Science (IL IAR)**: 26.3% proficient

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 25.6% (147 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**: 61.6%
- **Black/African American**: 0.2%
- **Asian**: 21.2%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 11.8%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 5.2%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 95.0%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 11.6% — 67 students


## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Developmental Delay**: 26 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 25 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 23 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 9 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 7 students
- **Autism**: 5 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 4 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $17,854
- **Federal share**: $1,971
- **State + local share**: $15,884
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $22,006,989
- **Federal share**: 12.5%
- **State share**: 63.0%
- **Local share**: 24.4%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $9,684,056

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $80,172
- **Poverty rate**: 14.2%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 19.4%
- **Unemployment**: 9.5%
- **Foreign-born residents**: 27.8%
- **Single-parent households**: 36.3%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 6.6 miles (AMOCO CHEMICALS JOLIET LANDFILL)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 41
- **Nearest brownfield**: 2.56 miles (JOLIET CORRECTIONAL CENTER EAST SIDE)

### 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**: 0.0 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Dirksen Junior High School** — 0.6 mi away, 19.54% (this school: 25.65%)
- **Taft Elementary School** — 1.1 mi away, 17.54% (this school: 25.65%)
- **Hufford Junior High School** — 1.2 mi away, 13.92% (this school: 25.65%)
- **M J Cunningham Elem Sch** — 1.5 mi away, 23.39% (this school: 25.65%)
- **Thomas Jefferson Elem School** — 1.6 mi away, 17.69% (this school: 25.65%)

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