NCES CCD 2024-25 6 schools IL

Best-Resourced Schools in Bellwood, IL

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6 public K-12 schools in Bellwood from NCES Common Core of Data: enrollment, grade span, demographics, and Civil Rights Data Collection statistics for every active campus.

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6
Schools
2,015
Students
26/100
Avg Resource Index
14.2:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Lean reported-resource profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Bellwood has more public-school enrollment than 12% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Bellwood's average Resource Investment Index falls in the lower portion of the 4,487-city comparison set. The index is a resource snapshot, not an academic grade: it reflects the federal staffing, counselor, gifted-program, and attendance fields available for local campuses. The most useful next step is to open the individual schools below and identify which component is pulling each score down, because the same city average can hide very different campus-level constraints.

The school portfolio is elementary-weighted

3 of Bellwood's 6 listed schools are elementary campuses. That composition means citywide enrollment and staffing averages are influenced more by early-grade operating patterns than by the city's 1 middle and 0 high-school records. Families comparing later grades should rely on those individual rows rather than the all-school mean.

The composite and staffing measures point in different directions

Bellwood's average Resource Investment Index sits at the 5th percentile, while its teacher-staffing measure sits at the 65th percentile. The 60-point percentile gap is a reminder that the index is not a class-size score: counselors, gifted-program reporting, and attendance also affect it. Compare those components directly when two schools have similar index totals; the same headline score can arise from a different mix of reported resources.

City enrollment
Top 88%
School count
Top 79%
Resource Index average
5th percentile
Teacher staffing
65th percentile

Roosevelt Middle School accounts for 30.5% of all Bellwood public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Bellwood-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade level: Middle. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how districts allocate programs, capital, or staff. Enrollment-weighted aggregates give this entity more weight than any smaller peer, while an unweighted entity average treats every record equally.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Bellwood school enrollment varies 3.4× across entities

Bellwood school enrollment ranges from 178 students (lowest) to 614 students (highest), a spread of 436 students. That relatively narrow ratio reflects an unusually homogeneous school portfolio for a city this size. Per-school staffing and program breadth can differ sharply at opposite ends of that enrollment range, so the city average should not be treated as a typical campus.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Bellwood student-teacher ratio is 14.2:1 — near the typical range (US average ~15.7) — citywide staffing is neither unusually lean nor unusually crowded by this measure

student-teacher ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE classroom teachers against total enrollment, push-in specialists, English-language aides, special-education co-teachers, and counselors are not included in most reporting Variation between sub-units within Bellwood is typically wider than the Bellwood-aggregate figure suggests.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Lincoln Elementary School 29
2. Roosevelt Middle School 27
3. Mckinley Elem School 27
4. Thurgood Marshall Elem School 27
5. Jefferson Primary School 26
6. Early Childhood Center 20

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Bellwood

Ranked by the Simpson student-body diversity index (0-100) from NCES race and ethnicity data, where higher means a more evenly mixed student body. It measures mix, not quality.

  1. 1 Early Childhood Center 55.2/100
  2. 2 Jefferson Primary School 55.1/100
  3. 3 Mckinley Elem School 52.7/100
  4. 4 Roosevelt Middle School 52.1/100
  5. 5 Thurgood Marshall Elem School 51.6/100

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Which Bellwood school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Lincoln Elementary School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Bellwood schools in this federal-data comparison at 29/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Bellwood, IL? ▼

Bellwood has 6 public schools with a total enrollment of 2,015 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 14.2:1.

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Data from NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 and Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) 2021-22. The Resource Investment Index uses reported student-teacher ratio, counselor access, gifted programs, and attendance; it is not an academic rating. Cities must include at least five schools to be listed. This public-data comparison is for informational purposes: verify current enrollment, attendance boundaries, and programs with the school district before acting. See the guide to understanding NCES data.