NCES CCD 2024-25 7 schools IL

Best-Resourced Schools in La Grange, IL

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

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7
Schools
5,996
Students
61.3/100
Avg Resource Index
12:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

One campus shapes the city average

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, La Grange has more public-school enrollment than 63% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Lyons Twp High Sch enrolls 61.8% of La Grange'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

4 of La Grange's 7 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.

A small portfolio contains radically different campus scales

La Grange lists only 7 schools, yet reported enrollment runs from 194 to 3,706 students, a 19-fold range. In a portfolio this compact, the smallest record may be a specialized or nonstandard setting rather than a miniature version of the largest campus. That distinction affects how ratios and program fields should be read. Compare similarly configured grade levels first; combining the extremes into one city average conceals more than it explains.

City enrollment
Top 37%
School count
Top 65%
Resource Index average
99th percentile
Teacher staffing
88th percentile

Lyons Twp High Sch accounts for 61.8% of all La Grange public-school enrollment

That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of La Grange a distant remainder — means La Grange-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

La Grange school enrollment varies 19× across entities

La Grange school enrollment ranges from 194 students (lowest) to 3,706 students (highest), a spread of 3,512 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

La Grange student-teacher ratio is 12.0:1 — 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. Cossitt Ave Elem School 69
2. Seventh Ave Elem School 69
3. Spring Ave Elem School 66
4. Ogden Ave Elem School 64
5. Pleasantdale Elementary School 64
6. Wm F Gurrie Middle School 55
7. Lyons Twp High Sch 42

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in La Grange

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 Wm F Gurrie Middle School 58.1/100
  2. 2 Seventh Ave Elem School 53.0/100
  3. 3 Lyons Twp High Sch 52.0/100
  4. 4 Pleasantdale Elementary School 41.1/100
  5. 5 Cossitt Ave Elem School 36.3/100

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Which La Grange school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Cossitt Ave Elem School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the La Grange schools in this federal-data comparison at 69/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in La Grange, IL? ▼

La Grange has 7 public schools with a total enrollment of 5,996 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 12:1.

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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.