NCES CCD 2024-25 14 schools IL

Best-Resourced Schools in Bolingbrook, IL

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

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14
Schools
9,987
Students
43/100
Avg Resource Index
12.6:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Large system with a dominant campus

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Bolingbrook has more public-school enrollment than 80% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Bolingbrook sits near the top of the national city distribution by public-school enrollment, while Bolingbrook High School alone enrolls 33.0% of local students. The city total therefore does not describe a uniform market: one large campus materially shapes the aggregate, and the remaining schools operate at a different scale. Read the ranked table alongside each campus profile rather than treating the city mean as a typical school.

The school portfolio is elementary-weighted

8 of Bolingbrook's 14 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 3 middle and 1 high-school records. Families comparing later grades should rely on those individual rows rather than the all-school mean.

Campus spread matters more than the city mean

The 36-point gap between Wayne Builta Elementary School and Oak View Elem School shows the range hidden by Bolingbrook's average Resource Investment Index. The city figure is useful for national placement, but families ultimately choose among campuses with different grade spans, enrollment, district affiliations, and reported support fields. Start with schools serving the relevant grade level, then compare the index components rather than assuming the city average describes any one classroom.

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Bolingbrook High School accounts for 33.0% of all Bolingbrook public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Bolingbrook-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

Bolingbrook school enrollment varies 10.0× across entities

Bolingbrook school enrollment ranges from 330 students (lowest) to 3,298 students (highest), a spread of 2,968 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

Bolingbrook student-teacher ratio is 12.6:1 — 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. Wayne Builta Elementary School 63
2. Jane Addams Middle School 56
3. Liberty Elementary School 56
4. Pioneer Elementary School 55
5. Brooks Middle School 51
6. Jonas E Salk Elem School 50
7. Bolingbrook High School 43
8. Hubert H Humphrey Middle School 42
9. Independence Elem School 35
10. Jamie Mcgee Elementary School 33
11. John R Tibbott Elem School 33
12. Wood View Elem School 30
13. Bernard J Ward Elem School 28
14. Oak View Elem School 27

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Bolingbrook

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 Pioneer Elementary School 77.1/100
  2. 2 Jamie Mcgee Elementary School 76.9/100
  3. 3 Liberty Elementary School 72.8/100
  4. 4 Brooks Middle School 69.4/100
  5. 5 Wood View Elem School 69.1/100

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Which Bolingbrook school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Wayne Builta Elementary School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Bolingbrook schools in this federal-data comparison at 63/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Bolingbrook, IL? ▼

Bolingbrook has 14 public schools with a total enrollment of 9,987 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 12.6:1.

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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.