NCES CCD 2024-25 6 schools IL

Best-Resourced Schools in Dunlap, IL

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6 public K-12 schools in Dunlap 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
4,000
Students
46.7/100
Avg Resource Index
17.6:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

One campus shapes the city average

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Dunlap has more public-school enrollment than 44% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Dunlap High School enrolls 35.5% of Dunlap'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.

A full K–12 ladder sits inside the city boundary

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

One district, but meaningful resource variation

Dunlap's schools share one district authority while their average Resource Investment Index ranks at the 77th percentile among listed cities. Shared governance removes one source of policy variation, but it does not erase campus differences by grade span or enrollment. The 31-point gap between Dunlap Middle School and Hickory Grove Elementary School measures the remaining local spread. Use the district-level picture for common budget context, then compare the school components to see whether staffing, counseling, gifted-program reporting, or attendance accounts for each campus's position.

City enrollment
Top 56%
School count
Top 79%
Resource Index average
77th percentile
Teacher staffing
28th percentile

Dunlap High School accounts for 35.5% of all Dunlap public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Dunlap-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

Dunlap school enrollment varies 5.6× across entities

Dunlap school enrollment ranges from 253 students (lowest) to 1,420 students (highest), a spread of 1,167 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

Dunlap operates one school district — a single-district system

Dunlap'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

Dunlap student-teacher ratio is 17.6:1 — 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 Dunlap is typically wider than the Dunlap-aggregate figure suggests.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Dunlap Middle School 60
2. Dunlap Valley Middle School 57
3. Banner Elementary School 51
4. Dunlap Grade School 46
5. Dunlap High School 37
6. Hickory Grove Elementary School 29

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Dunlap

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 Dunlap Middle School 64.3/100
  2. 2 Hickory Grove Elementary School 60.8/100
  3. 3 Dunlap Valley Middle School 59.7/100
  4. 4 Dunlap High School 56.5/100
  5. 5 Banner Elementary School 51.5/100

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Which Dunlap school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Dunlap Middle School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Dunlap schools in this federal-data comparison at 60/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Dunlap, IL? ▼

Dunlap has 6 public schools with a total enrollment of 4,000 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 17.6:1.

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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.