# Plainfield South High School

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `173174004524`
- **School name**: Plainfield South High School
- **Location**: Plainfield, IL 60586
- **Address**: 7800 Caton Farm Rd
- **District**: Plainfield SD 202 (LEAID `1731740`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 41.56277, -88.27230
- **Phone**: (815)439-5555
- **Wikidata QID**: Q7200700 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plainfield_South_High_School
- **Founded**: 2001

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 2,323
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 136
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 17.1:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 34.2%

## 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

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 93.9% (cohort of 606)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 979

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 2.1% (51 students) [source: crdc_2020]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 2
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.3%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 27.8%
- **Black/African American**: 2.6%
- **Asian**: 13.5%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 53.1%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 2.6%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 39.6%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 11.3% — 275 students


## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 177 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 73 students
- **Autism**: 45 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 36 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 31 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 5 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 4 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 4 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 2 students
- **Traumatic Brain Injury**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $13,109
- **Federal share**: $592
- **State + local share**: $12,517
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $18,087,048
- **Federal share**: 6.6%
- **State share**: 43.1%
- **Local share**: 50.4%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $10,235,442

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $113,398
- **Poverty rate**: 12.0%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 41.5%
- **Unemployment**: 11.1%
- **Foreign-born residents**: 11.8%
- **Single-parent households**: 31.5%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 9.8 miles (AMOCO CHEMICALS JOLIET LANDFILL)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 0
- **Nearest brownfield**: 10.28 miles (JOLIET CORRECTIONAL CENTER EAST SIDE)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: PLAINFIELD
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2025-07-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 7.83138 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 8.4 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Richard Ira Jones Middle School** — 3.8 mi away, 1.3% (this school: 2.11%)
- **Plainfield High School** — 4.4 mi away, 1% (this school: 2.11%)
- **Walkers Grove Elementary School** — 5.8 mi away, 0.17% (this school: 2.11%)
- **Heritage Grove Middle School** — 7.2 mi away, 1.36% (this school: 2.11%)
- **Plainfield North High School** — 7.5 mi away, 1.23% (this school: 2.11%)

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