NCES CCD 2024-25 11 schools IL

Best-Resourced Schools in Glen Ellyn, IL

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

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11
Schools
8,639
Students
52.6/100
Avg Resource Index
15:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Middle-of-corpus city profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Glen Ellyn has more public-school enrollment than 76% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Glen Ellyn sits in the broad middle of the national city distribution rather than at a single obvious extreme. Its scale, average Resource Investment Index, and staffing position need to be read together: a middle placement on one measure does not cancel a stronger or weaker result on another. The percentile panel makes those dimensions explicit, and the school table shows where the city aggregate breaks into materially different campus profiles.

A full K–12 ladder sits inside the city boundary

Glen Ellyn's list includes 4 elementary, 2 middle, and 2 high-school campuses, plus 3 combined-grade records. The city average spans every major grade stage, so the ranked table is more informative when read within level than as one interchangeable queue.

The composite and staffing measures point in different directions

Glen Ellyn's average Resource Investment Index sits at the 92nd percentile, while its teacher-staffing measure sits at the 54th percentile. The 38-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 24%
School count
Top 35%
Resource Index average
92nd percentile
Teacher staffing
54th percentile

Glenbard West High School accounts for 27.0% of all Glen Ellyn public-school enrollment

That concentration means Glen Ellyn-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

Glen Ellyn school enrollment varies 7.5× across entities

Glen Ellyn school enrollment ranges from 311 students (lowest) to 2,330 students (highest), a spread of 2,019 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

Glen Ellyn student-teacher ratio is 15.0:1 — 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 Glen Ellyn is typically wider than the Glen Ellyn-aggregate figure suggests.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Benjamin Franklin Elem School 64
2. Westfield Elem School 62
3. Forest Glen Elem School 61
4. Park View Elem School 61
5. Churchill Elem School 57
6. Abraham Lincoln Elem School 57
7. Arbor View Elem School 55
8. Hadley Junior High School 46
9. Glen Crest Middle School 43
10. Glenbard South High School 39
11. Glenbard West High School 34

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Glen Ellyn

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 Churchill Elem School 69.3/100
  2. 2 Arbor View Elem School 64.9/100
  3. 3 Glenbard South High School 63.3/100
  4. 4 Glenbard West High School 62.8/100
  5. 5 Park View Elem School 60.9/100

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Which Glen Ellyn school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Benjamin Franklin Elem School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Glen Ellyn schools in this federal-data comparison at 64/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Glen Ellyn, IL? ▼

Glen Ellyn has 11 public schools with a total enrollment of 8,639 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 15:1.

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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.