NCES CCD 2024-25 7 schools IL

Best-Resourced Schools in Cahokia, IL

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

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7
Schools
2,715
Students
25.3/100
Avg Resource Index
15.7:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Compact, single-district system

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Cahokia has more public-school enrollment than 24% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Cahokia's 7 listed schools all sit inside one district, creating a compact governance structure with one budget, board, and reporting chain. That makes citywide comparisons cleaner than in places split across several districts, but it does not make the campuses interchangeable: elementary, middle, and high-school staffing needs differ. The ranked list is best read as variation inside one system rather than competition among separate local authorities.

A full K–12 ladder sits inside the city boundary

Cahokia's list includes 3 elementary, 1 middle, and 1 high-school campus, plus 2 combined-grade records. The city average spans every major grade stage, so the ranked table is more informative when read within level than as one interchangeable queue.

The composite and staffing measures point in different directions

Cahokia's average Resource Investment Index sits at the 4th percentile, while its teacher-staffing measure sits at the 46th percentile. The 42-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 76%
School count
Top 65%
Resource Index average
4th percentile
Teacher staffing
46th percentile

Cahokia High School accounts for 31.3% of all Cahokia public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Cahokia-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

Cahokia school enrollment varies 3.5× across entities

Cahokia school enrollment ranges from 240 students (lowest) to 850 students (highest), a spread of 610 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

Cahokia operates one school district — a single-district system

Cahokia's listed schools share one district boundary, budget authority, and reporting chain. That makes citywide and districtwide governance easier to compare, but it does not make individual campuses uniform: grade configuration, staffing, programs, and student need can still vary materially within the same school district.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Cahokia student-teacher ratio is 15.7:1 — 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 Cahokia is typically wider than the Cahokia-aggregate figure suggests.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Wirth/Parks Middle School 35
2. Cahokia High School 30
3. Penniman Elem School 25
4. Huffman Elem School 23
5. Maplewood Elem School 22
6. Estelle Sauget School of Choice 22
7. Elizabeth Morris Elem School 20

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Cahokia

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 Maplewood Elem School 31.4/100
  2. 2 Estelle Sauget School of Choice 23.5/100
  3. 3 Huffman Elem School 22.4/100
  4. 4 Wirth/Parks Middle School 21.5/100
  5. 5 Cahokia High School 20.0/100

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Which Cahokia school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Wirth/Parks Middle School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Cahokia schools in this federal-data comparison at 35/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Cahokia, IL? ▼

Cahokia has 7 public schools with a total enrollment of 2,715 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 15.7:1.

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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.