# Ridgely Elem School

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Full profile (human-readable): https://us.il.whatschool.ai/en/il/school/ridgely-elem-school-springfield

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `173708003835`
- **School name**: Ridgely Elem School
- **Location**: Springfield, IL 62702
- **Address**: 2040 N 8th St
- **District**: Springfield SD 186 (LEAID `1737080`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Coordinates**: 39.82879, -89.64382
- **Phone**: (217)525-3259

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 343
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 22
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 15.6:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 74.1%

## 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

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 42.8% (116 students) [source: crdc_2020]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 1.1%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 2.2%
- **Black/African American**: 0.0%
- **Asian**: 35.2%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 44.3%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 17.2%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 73.1%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 21.6% — 59 students


## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Developmental Delay**: 17 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 17 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 9 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 8 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 4 students
- **Autism**: 1 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 1 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $21,719
- **Federal share**: $4,156
- **State + local share**: $17,563
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $24,770,314
- **Federal share**: 18.1%
- **State share**: 35.9%
- **Local share**: 46.0%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $11,816,679

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $53,884
- **Poverty rate**: 23.0%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 16.7%
- **Unemployment**: 8.1%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,012
- **Foreign-born residents**: 0.5%
- **Single-parent households**: 31.7%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 27.1 miles (CENTRAL ILLINOIS PUBLIC SERVICE CO)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 12
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.32 miles (FORMER PILLSBURY MILLS PLANT BUILDINGS A E F H I K L M R S V Y Z)

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

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 6.99768 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 0.2 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Fairview Elem School** — 1.0 mi away, 34.93% (this school: 42.8%)
- **Lincoln Magnet School** — 2.1 mi away, 31.02% (this school: 42.8%)
- **Springfield High School** — 2.1 mi away, 40.67% (this school: 42.8%)
- **Iles Elem School** — 3.2 mi away, 5.41% (this school: 42.8%)
- **Butler Elem School** — 3.5 mi away, 38.64% (this school: 42.8%)

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