NCES CCD 2024-25 6 schools IL

Best-Resourced Schools in Bourbonnais, IL

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6 public K-12 schools in Bourbonnais 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
2,671
Students
36.7/100
Avg Resource Index
14.3:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Middle-of-corpus city profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Bourbonnais has more public-school enrollment than 23% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Bourbonnais sits in the broad middle of the national city distribution rather than at a single obvious extreme. Its scale, average Resource Investment Index, and staffing position need to be read together: a middle placement on one measure does not cancel a stronger or weaker result on another. The percentile panel makes those dimensions explicit, and the school table shows where the city aggregate breaks into materially different campus profiles.

Combined-grade campuses shape the local portfolio

3 of Bourbonnais's 6 listed schools use NCES's combined or “other” grade-level classification. Citywide averages therefore blend campuses serving unusually broad or nonstandard grade spans with conventional elementary, middle, and high schools. Grade configuration is a first-order comparison here, not a minor label.

Campus spread matters more than the city mean

The 21-point gap between St George Elem School and Shabbona Elem School shows the range hidden by Bourbonnais'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.

City enrollment
Top 77%
School count
Top 79%
Resource Index average
32nd percentile
Teacher staffing
63rd percentile

Liberty Intermediate School accounts for 26.7% of all Bourbonnais public-school enrollment

That concentration means Bourbonnais-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade level: Elementary. 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

Bourbonnais school enrollment varies 2.5× across entities

Bourbonnais school enrollment ranges from 290 students (lowest) to 714 students (highest), a spread of 424 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

Bourbonnais student-teacher ratio is 14.3:1 — 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 Bourbonnais is typically wider than the Bourbonnais-aggregate figure suggests.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. St George Elem School 50
2. Liberty Intermediate School 40
3. Alan B Shepard Elem School 36
4. Noel Levasseur Elem School 33
5. Bourbonnais Upper Grade Center 32
6. Shabbona Elem School 29

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Bourbonnais

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 Shabbona Elem School 64.3/100
  2. 2 Alan B Shepard Elem School 60.3/100
  3. 3 Liberty Intermediate School 58.1/100
  4. 4 Noel Levasseur Elem School 54.8/100
  5. 5 Bourbonnais Upper Grade Center 53.4/100

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Which Bourbonnais school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

St George Elem School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Bourbonnais schools in this federal-data comparison at 50/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Bourbonnais, IL? ▼

Bourbonnais has 6 public schools with a total enrollment of 2,671 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 14.3:1.

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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.