# Union Elementary School

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `173966004004`
- **School name**: Union Elementary School
- **Location**: Joliet, IL 60433
- **Address**: 1661 Cherry Hill Rd
- **District**: Union SD 81 (LEAID `1739660`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–8
- **Coordinates**: 41.49720, -88.02390
- **Phone**: (815)726-5218

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 143
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 12
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 11.9:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 37.1%

## 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 8.0% (9 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**: 37.6%
- **Black/African American**: 0.0%
- **Asian**: 14.7%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 42.2%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 5.5%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 46.9%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 14.7% — 16 students


## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Other Health Impairment**: 3 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 3 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 3 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 2 students
- **Autism**: 1 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $28,891
- **Federal share**: $1,757
- **State + local share**: $27,134
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $67,929,825
- **Federal share**: 6.2%
- **State share**: 10.4%
- **Local share**: 83.4%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $14,175,439

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $58,830
- **Poverty rate**: 12.7%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 12.5%
- **Unemployment**: 9.5%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,073
- **Foreign-born residents**: 17.7%
- **Single-parent households**: 14.8%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 8.6 miles (AMOCO CHEMICALS JOLIET LANDFILL)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 1
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 22
- **Nearest brownfield**: 4.12 miles (JCC EAST SIDE FIRING RANGE)

### 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**: 5.2 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Lincoln Way West** — 1.2 mi away, 3.05% (this school: 8.04%)
- **Eisenhower Academy** — 1.5 mi away, 3.77% (this school: 8.04%)
- **Cherry Hill Elem and EC Center** — 1.8 mi away, 6.45% (this school: 8.04%)
- **Nelson Prairie School** — 2.6 mi away, 3.59% (this school: 8.04%)
- **Nelson Ridge School** — 2.6 mi away, 4.99% (this school: 8.04%)

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