# Virgil I Grissom Middle School

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `172127002402`
- **School name**: Virgil I Grissom Middle School
- **Location**: Tinley Park, IL 60477
- **Address**: 17000 80th Ave
- **District**: Kirby SD 140 (LEAID `1721270`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Coordinates**: 41.58301, -87.81500
- **Phone**: (708)429-3030

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 627
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 50
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 12.5:1

## 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 7.0% (44 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**: 15.2%
- **Black/African American**: 4.5%
- **Asian**: 5.2%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 72.9%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.2%
- **Two or more races**: 2.1%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 0.0%


## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 55 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 11 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 7 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 5 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 4 students
- **Autism**: 3 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 2 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $15,173
- **Federal share**: $384
- **State + local share**: $14,789
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $19,450,947
- **Federal share**: 7.1%
- **State share**: 29.5%
- **Local share**: 63.3%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $11,348,318

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $144,738
- **Poverty rate**: 4.0%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 40.8%
- **Unemployment**: 2.8%
- **Foreign-born residents**: 7.2%
- **Single-parent households**: 5.9%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 10.8 miles (LENZ OIL SERVICE INC)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 13
- **Nearest brownfield**: 5.02 miles (CHEVY PROPERTY)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: TINLEY PARK
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2025-07-02

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 6.88793 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 7.4 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Victor J Andrew High School** — 1.3 mi away, 5.29% (this school: 7.01%)
- **Liberty Elem School** — 2.4 mi away, 2.81% (this school: 7.01%)
- **Prairie Elem School** — 3.5 mi away, 4.38% (this school: 7.01%)
- **High Point Elem School** — 3.6 mi away, 3.82% (this school: 7.01%)
- **Meadow Ridge School** — 3.8 mi away, 6.18% (this school: 7.01%)

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