NCES CCD 2024-25 6 schools IL

Best-Resourced Schools in Hinsdale, IL

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

6 public K-12 schools in Hinsdale 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

4,683

Students

52/100

Avg Resource Index

13.8:1

Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

One campus shapes the city average

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Hinsdale has more public-school enrollment than 52% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Hinsdale Central High School enrolls 52.2% of Hinsdale'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

3 of Hinsdale'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 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 11-point gap between Madison Elem School and Hinsdale Central High School shows the range hidden by Hinsdale'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 48%
School count: Top 79%
Resource Index average: 91st percentile
Teacher staffing: 69th percentile

Hinsdale Central High School accounts for 52.2% of all Hinsdale public-school enrollment

That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Hinsdale a distant remainder — means Hinsdale-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. Because it contains a majority of the affected population, enrollment-weighted aggregates will sit closer to this entity's reported fields than to those of smaller peers; an unweighted entity count answers a different question.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data Accessed 2026-08-26

Hinsdale school enrollment varies 7.5× across entities

Hinsdale school enrollment ranges from 325 students (lowest) to 2,445 students (highest), a spread of 2,120 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

Hinsdale student-teacher ratio is 13.8:1 — 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 Accessed 2026-08-26

#	School	Score	Enrollment	Level	District
1.	Madison Elem School	56	367	elementary	Hinsdale Ccsd 181
2.	The Lane Elem School	56	345	elementary	Hinsdale Ccsd 181
3.	Monroe Elem School	54	325	elementary	Hinsdale Ccsd 181
4.	Oak Elem School	51	446	Combined	Hinsdale Ccsd 181
5.	Hinsdale Middle School	50	755	middle	Hinsdale Ccsd 181
6.	Hinsdale Central High School	45	2,445	high	Hinsdale Twp Hsd 86

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Hinsdale

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 Hinsdale school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Madison Elem School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Hinsdale schools in this federal-data comparison at 56/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Hinsdale, IL? ▼

Hinsdale has 6 public schools with a total enrollment of 4,683 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 13.8:1.

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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.