NCES CCD 2024-25 9 schools IL

Best-Resourced Schools in Danville, IL

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9 public K-12 schools in Danville 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
4,940
Students
29.4/100
Avg Resource Index
18.1:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Lean reported-resource profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Danville has more public-school enrollment than 55% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Danville's average Resource Investment Index falls in the lower portion of the 4,487-city comparison set. The index is a resource snapshot, not an academic grade: it reflects the federal staffing, counselor, gifted-program, and attendance fields available for local campuses. The most useful next step is to open the individual schools below and identify which component is pulling each score down, because the same city average can hide very different campus-level constraints.

The school portfolio is elementary-weighted

5 of Danville'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.

Campus spread matters more than the city mean

The 29-point gap between Northeast Elem Magnet School and South View Upper Elem School shows the range hidden by Danville'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 45%
School count
Top 46%
Resource Index average
11th percentile
Teacher staffing
25th percentile

Danville High School accounts for 25.4% of all Danville public-school enrollment

That concentration means Danville-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

Danville school enrollment varies 5.4× across entities

Danville school enrollment ranges from 233 students (lowest) to 1,253 students (highest), a spread of 1,020 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

Danville operates one school district — a single-district system

Danville'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

Danville student-teacher ratio is 18.1:1 — high (typically associated with larger urban scale or staffing constraints that have widened the headcount gap)

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 Higher values may reflect larger urban scale or recent resource constraints that have widened the gap.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Northeast Elem Magnet School 48
2. Southwest Elem School 37
3. Mark Denman Elementary School 35
4. Danville High School 30
5. Meade Park Elem School 29
6. Liberty Elem School 23
7. Edison Elem School 23
8. North Ridge Middle School 21
9. South View Upper Elem School 19

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Danville

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 Northeast Elem Magnet School 70.6/100
  2. 2 Southwest Elem School 69.4/100
  3. 3 Danville High School 67.9/100
  4. 4 Liberty Elem School 66.5/100
  5. 5 North Ridge Middle School 66.2/100

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Which Danville school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Northeast Elem Magnet School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Danville schools in this federal-data comparison at 48/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Danville, IL? ▼

Danville has 9 public schools with a total enrollment of 4,940 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 18.1:1.

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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.