NCES CCD 2024-25 6 schools IL

Best-Resourced Schools in Effingham, IL

Compiled from official source data by PlainSchools. · Updated August 2026

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

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Schools

2,261

Students

38.7/100

Avg Resource Index

14.6:1

Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Compact, single-district system

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Effingham has more public-school enrollment than 16% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Effingham's 6 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.

The school portfolio is elementary-weighted

3 of Effingham's 6 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 0 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 38-point gap between Effingham High School and Effingham Unit 40 Preschool shows the range hidden by Effingham'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 84%
School count: Top 79%
Resource Index average: 40th percentile
Teacher staffing: 60th percentile

Effingham High School accounts for 31.5% of all Effingham public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Effingham-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 Accessed 2026-08-26

Effingham school enrollment varies 5.9× across entities

Effingham school enrollment ranges from 121 students (lowest) to 712 students (highest), a spread of 591 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 Accessed 2026-08-26

Effingham operates one school district — a single-district system

Effingham'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 Accessed 2026-08-26

Effingham student-teacher ratio is 14.6:1 — 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 Effingham is typically wider than the Effingham-aggregate figure suggests.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe Accessed 2026-08-26

#	School	Score	Enrollment	Level	District
1.	Effingham High School	50	712	high	Effingham Cusd 40
2.	Early Learning Center	49	175	elementary	Effingham Cusd 40
3.	Effingham Junior High School	45	458	Combined	Effingham Cusd 40
4.	South Side Grade School	44	248	elementary	Effingham Cusd 40
5.	Central Grade School	32	547	elementary	Effingham Cusd 40
6.	Effingham Unit 40 Preschool	12	121	Combined	Effingham Cusd 40

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Effingham

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.

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Which Effingham school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Effingham High School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Effingham 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 Effingham, IL? ▼

Effingham has 6 public schools with a total enrollment of 2,261 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 14.6:1.

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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.