# Sterling High School

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `174231004261`
- **School name**: Sterling High School
- **Location**: Sterling, IL 61081
- **Address**: 1608 4th Ave
- **District**: Sterling CUSD 5 (LEAID `1742310`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 41.80277, -89.69129
- **Phone**: (815)625-6800
- **Wikidata QID**: Q7611420 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sterling_High_School_(Illinois)

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 999
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 57
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 17.5:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 54.1%

## 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

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 86.2% (cohort of 268)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 57

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 21.4% (226 students) [source: crdc_2020]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.1%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 36.8%
- **Black/African American**: 0.9%
- **Asian**: 2.4%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 54.5%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 5.3%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 51.6%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 13.8% — 146 students


## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 66 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 23 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 21 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 16 students
- **Autism**: 14 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $12,393
- **Federal share**: $1,218
- **State + local share**: $11,175
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $18,986,886
- **Federal share**: 13.3%
- **State share**: 42.1%
- **Local share**: 44.5%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $8,304,056

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $71,186
- **Poverty rate**: 7.4%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 22.8%
- **Unemployment**: 3.6%
- **Median gross rent**: $738
- **Foreign-born residents**: 9.2%
- **Single-parent households**: 13.6%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 28.0 miles (BYRON SALVAGE YARD)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 1
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 22
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.49 miles (LUMBER OFF LOADING FACILITY)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: STERLING STEEL
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Jefferson Elem School** — 0.3 mi away, 6.63% (this school: 21.4%)
- **Lincoln Elem School** — 0.8 mi away, 6.32% (this school: 21.4%)
- **Washington Elem School** — 0.8 mi away, 8.82% (this school: 21.4%)
- **Franklin Elem School** — 0.8 mi away, 14.97% (this school: 21.4%)
- **Rock Falls Township High School** — 1.8 mi away, 2.87% (this school: 21.4%)

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