# Wheeling High School

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

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

---

## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `170417000117`
- **School name**: Wheeling High School
- **Location**: Wheeling, IL 60090
- **Address**: 900 S Elmhurst Rd
- **District**: Township HSD 214 (LEAID `1704170`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 42.12648, -87.93839
- **Phone**: (847)718-7000
- **Wikidata QID**: Q7992300 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheeling_High_School
- **Founded**: 1964

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 1,743
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 114
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 15.3:1

## 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**: 86.1% (cohort of 462)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 663

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 17.6% (314 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**: 64.8%
- **Black/African American**: 6.1%
- **Asian**: 2.4%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 25.1%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.1%
- **Two or more races**: 1.6%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 12.8% — 229 students


## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 139 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 39 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 24 students
- **Autism**: 22 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 17 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 3 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 2 students
- **Traumatic Brain Injury**: 2 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**: $26,823
- **Federal share**: $1,176
- **State + local share**: $25,648
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $30,391,121
- **Federal share**: 3.9%
- **State share**: 21.3%
- **Local share**: 74.8%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $14,985,256

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $89,188
- **Poverty rate**: 9.6%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 32.2%
- **Unemployment**: 7.3%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,175
- **Foreign-born residents**: 39.5%
- **Single-parent households**: 3.7%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 14.8 miles (WAUCONDA SAND GRAVEL)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 17
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 67
- **Nearest brownfield**: 6.09 miles (DESPLAINES RAND AND PINE ROAD PROPERTY)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: WHEELING
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 6
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 6
- **Most recent violation**: 2019-06-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 7.25566 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 6.0 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Booth Tarkington Elem School** — 0.8 mi away, 11.37% (this school: 17.56%)
- **Jack London Middle School** — 0.8 mi away, 7.59% (this school: 17.56%)
- **Eugene Field Elem School** — 0.9 mi away, 15.3% (this school: 17.56%)
- **Anne Sullivan Elem School** — 1.3 mi away, 9.18% (this school: 17.56%)
- **MacArthur Middle School** — 1.3 mi away, 5.18% (this school: 17.56%)

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

---
*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.*

*Canonical cross-domain architecture: WhatSchool.ai · Spill.org · CourseMap.org · WhatCareer.net*