# West Aurora High School

*Machine-readable school profile — served at https://us.il.whatschool.ai/en/il/school/west-aurora-high-school-aurora/llm*

Full profile (human-readable): https://us.il.whatschool.ai/en/il/school/west-aurora-high-school-aurora

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `170471000174`
- **School name**: West Aurora High School
- **Location**: Aurora, IL 60506
- **Address**: 1201 W New York St
- **District**: Aurora West USD 129 (LEAID `1704710`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 41.76433, -88.34499
- **Phone**: (630)301-5600
- **Wikidata QID**: Q7984346 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Aurora_High_School
- **Founded**: 1868

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 3,641
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 225
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 16.2:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 49.7%

## 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**: 87.9% (cohort of 907)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 1,452

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 2.1% (78 students) [source: crdc_2020]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 82
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.3%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 59.6%
- **Black/African American**: 3.0%
- **Asian**: 10.2%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 24.7%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 2.0%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 49.4%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 11.7% — 438 students


## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 266 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 69 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 62 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 55 students
- **Autism**: 47 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 8 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 8 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 6 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 3 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 2 students
- **Traumatic Brain Injury**: 2 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $15,872
- **Federal share**: $1,389
- **State + local share**: $14,483
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $20,335,239
- **Federal share**: 10.8%
- **State share**: 37.9%
- **Local share**: 51.3%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $9,427,780

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $74,955
- **Poverty rate**: 21.8%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 13.4%
- **Unemployment**: 7.2%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,434
- **Foreign-born residents**: 28.9%
- **Single-parent households**: 17.1%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 9.8 miles (KERR MCGEE KRESS CREEK WEST BRANCH OF DUPAGE RIVER)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 6
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 47
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.97 miles (KIDDIE CAR)

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

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 7.21014 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 1.6 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Fearn Elementary School** — 3.5 mi away, 1.72% (this school: 2.09%)
- **Mill Creek School** — 8.3 mi away, 2.05% (this school: 2.09%)
- **Heartland Elementary School** — 8.5 mi away, 1.42% (this school: 2.09%)
- **Plainfield North High School** — 9.4 mi away, 1.23% (this school: 2.09%)
- **Kaneland Blackberry Creek Elem** — 9.7 mi away, 1.77% (this school: 2.09%)

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