# Prairie Central High School

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `170000505126`
- **School name**: Prairie Central High School
- **Location**: Fairbury, IL 61739
- **Address**: 411 N 7th St
- **District**: Prairie Central CUSD 8 (LEAID `1700005`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 40.75185, -88.50629
- **Phone**: (815)692-2355
- **Wikidata QID**: Q7237822 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prairie_Central_High_School
- **Founded**: 1984

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 487
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 41
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 11.9:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 40.0%

## 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**: 90.2% (cohort of 153)

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 35.1% (200 students) [source: crdc_2020]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 11
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.2%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 4.2%
- **Black/African American**: 0.9%
- **Asian**: 2.0%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 89.3%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 3.4%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 43.6%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 16.3% — 93 students


## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 22 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 20 students
- **Autism**: 9 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 8 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 5 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 1 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students
- **Traumatic Brain Injury**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $16,334
- **Federal share**: $576
- **State + local share**: $15,758
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $20,465,116
- **Federal share**: 7.3%
- **State share**: 37.6%
- **Local share**: 55.1%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $10,264,322

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $75,652
- **Poverty rate**: 3.9%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 25.7%
- **Unemployment**: 4.7%
- **Median gross rent**: $730
- **Foreign-born residents**: 1.0%
- **Single-parent households**: 19.4%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 44.9 miles (OTTAWA RADIATION AREAS)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 1
- **Nearest brownfield**: 30.55 miles (KNOEDLER MANUFACTURING)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: FAIRBURY
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 4
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2024-10-17

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Prairie Central  Elem School** — 1.0 mi away, 6.01% (this school: 35.15%)
- **Prairie Central Jr High School** — 4.9 mi away, 17.53% (this school: 35.15%)
- **Prairie Central Upper Elementary** — 5.0 mi away, 5.51% (this school: 35.15%)
- **Lincoln Elementary School** — 10.6 mi away, 29.3% (this school: 35.15%)
- **Washington Elem School** — 10.7 mi away, 20.18% (this school: 35.15%)

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