NCES CCD 2024-25 8 schools IL

Best-Resourced Schools in Blue Island, IL

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

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8
Schools
3,655
Students
41.9/100
Avg Resource Index
12.8:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

One campus shapes the city average

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Blue Island has more public-school enrollment than 39% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Dd Eisenhower High Sch (Campus) enrolls 49.7% of Blue Island's public-school students. That is enough concentration for one institution to pull the citywide enrollment, staffing, and Resource Index averages toward its own profile. The smaller campuses below should therefore be compared directly rather than inferred from the headline mean; their grade configurations and program footprints can be materially different even inside the same district.

The school portfolio is elementary-weighted

4 of Blue Island's 8 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 2 middle and 1 high-school records. Families comparing later grades should rely on those individual rows rather than the all-school mean.

A small portfolio contains radically different campus scales

Blue Island lists only 8 schools, yet reported enrollment runs from 150 to 1,818 students, a 12-fold range. In a portfolio this compact, the smallest record may be a specialized or nonstandard setting rather than a miniature version of the largest campus. That distinction affects how ratios and program fields should be read. Compare similarly configured grade levels first; combining the extremes into one city average conceals more than it explains.

City enrollment
Top 61%
School count
Top 54%
Resource Index average
55th percentile
Teacher staffing
81st percentile

Dd Eisenhower High Sch (Campus) accounts for 49.7% of all Blue Island public-school enrollment

That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Blue Island a distant remainder — means Blue Island-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade level: High. 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

Blue Island school enrollment varies 12× across entities

Blue Island school enrollment ranges from 150 students (lowest) to 1,818 students (highest), a spread of 1,668 students. That spread reflects typical urban portfolio variation between specialty programs and large neighbourhood schools. 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

Blue Island student-teacher ratio is 12.8:1 — low (typically associated with smaller schools or per-school staffing investment that often correlates with stronger per-student supports)

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 Lower values often correlate with smaller scale and population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Paul Revere Intermediate School 55
2. Whittier Elementary School 48
3. Veterans Memorial Middle Sch 45
4. Lincoln Elem School 45
5. Everett F Kerr Middle School 43
6. Paul Revere Primary School 40
7. Dd Eisenhower High Sch (Campus) 34
8. Horace Mann School 25

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Blue Island

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 Veterans Memorial Middle Sch 51.4/100
  2. 2 Dd Eisenhower High Sch (Campus) 51.2/100
  3. 3 Paul Revere Primary School 44.8/100
  4. 4 Paul Revere Intermediate School 42.5/100
  5. 5 Whittier Elementary School 39.9/100

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Which Blue Island school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Paul Revere Intermediate School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Blue Island schools in this federal-data comparison at 55/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Blue Island, IL? ▼

Blue Island has 8 public schools with a total enrollment of 3,655 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 12.8:1.

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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.