NCES CCD 2024-25 16 schools IL

Best-Resourced Schools in Evanston, IL

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

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16
Schools
9,442
Students
43.4/100
Avg Resource Index
10.2:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

One campus shapes the city average

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Evanston has more public-school enrollment than 79% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Evanston Twp High School enrolls 37.7% of Evanston'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

11 of Evanston's 16 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 3 middle and 1 high-school records. Families comparing later grades should rely on those individual rows rather than the all-school mean.

The composite and staffing measures point in different directions

Evanston's average Resource Investment Index sits at the 62nd percentile, while its teacher-staffing measure sits at the 98th percentile. The 36-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 21%
School count
Top 21%
Resource Index average
62nd percentile
Teacher staffing
98th percentile

Evanston Twp High School accounts for 37.7% of all Evanston public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Evanston-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

Evanston school enrollment varies 16× across entities

Evanston school enrollment ranges from 225 students (lowest) to 3,560 students (highest), a spread of 3,335 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

Evanston student-teacher ratio is 10.2:1 — low (typically associated with smaller schools or per-school staffing investment that often correlates with stronger per-student supports)

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 Lower values often correlate with smaller scale and population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Orrington Elem School 55
2. Willard Elem School 50
3. Joseph E Hill Education Center 48
4. Dawes Elementary School 47
5. Chute Middle School 46
6. Dewey Elem School 45
7. Lincoln Elem School 44
8. Washington Elem School 43
9. Walker Elem School 42
10. Nichols Middle School 40
11. Oakton Elem School 40
12. Lincolnwood Elem School 40
13. Evanston Twp High School 39
14. Dr Ml King Jr Literary&Fine Arts 39
15. Kingsley Elementary School 39
16. Haven Middle School 37

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Evanston

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 Dawes Elementary School 74.5/100
  2. 2 Chute Middle School 74.4/100
  3. 3 Walker Elem School 73.6/100
  4. 4 Dewey Elem School 73.1/100
  5. 5 Joseph E Hill Education Center 73.1/100

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Which Evanston school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Orrington Elem School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Evanston schools in this federal-data comparison at 55/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Evanston, IL? ▼

Evanston has 16 public schools with a total enrollment of 9,442 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 10.2:1.

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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.