NCES CCD 2024-25 9 schools IL

Best-Resourced Schools in Carol Stream, IL

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

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9
Schools
5,311
Students
48.4/100
Avg Resource Index
14:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

One campus shapes the city average

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Carol Stream has more public-school enrollment than 58% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Glenbard North High School enrolls 39.1% of Carol Stream'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

6 of Carol Stream's 9 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 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

Carol Stream lists only 9 schools, yet reported enrollment runs from 185 to 2,079 students, a 11-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 42%
School count
Top 46%
Resource Index average
82nd percentile
Teacher staffing
67th percentile

Glenbard North High School accounts for 39.1% of all Carol Stream public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Carol Stream-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

Carol Stream school enrollment varies 11× across entities

Carol Stream school enrollment ranges from 185 students (lowest) to 2,079 students (highest), a spread of 1,894 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

Carol Stream student-teacher ratio is 14.0:1 — 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 Carol Stream is typically wider than the Carol Stream-aggregate figure suggests.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Heritage Lakes Elem School 59
2. Roy De Shane Elementary School 59
3. Western Trails Elem School 54
4. Cloverdale Elem School 52
5. Carol Stream Elem School 51
6. Evergreen Elementary School 49
7. Jay Stream Middle School 46
8. Glenbard North High School 35
9. Spring Trail Elementary School 31

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Carol Stream

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 Western Trails Elem School 71.7/100
  2. 2 Carol Stream Elem School 70.9/100
  3. 3 Glenbard North High School 70.3/100
  4. 4 Roy De Shane Elementary School 70.0/100
  5. 5 Cloverdale Elem School 69.8/100

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Which Carol Stream school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Heritage Lakes Elem School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Carol Stream schools in this federal-data comparison at 59/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Carol Stream, IL? ▼

Carol Stream has 9 public schools with a total enrollment of 5,311 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 14:1.

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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.