NCES CCD 2024-25 6 schools IL

Best-Resourced Schools in Lake Villa, IL

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

6 public K-12 schools in Lake Villa 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

4,097

Students

41.8/100

Avg Resource Index

13.7:1

Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Middle-of-corpus city profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Lake Villa has more public-school enrollment than 45% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Lake Villa 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

Lake Villa's list includes 2 elementary, 1 middle, and 1 high-school campus, plus 2 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.

Campus spread matters more than the city mean

The 31-point gap between Oakland Elementary School and Pleviak Elem School shows the range hidden by Lake Villa'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 55%
School count: Top 79%
Resource Index average: 54th percentile
Teacher staffing: 71st percentile

Lakes Community High School accounts for 32.6% of all Lake Villa public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Lake Villa-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

Lake Villa school enrollment varies 3.3× across entities

Lake Villa school enrollment ranges from 405 students (lowest) to 1,334 students (highest), a spread of 929 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

Lake Villa student-teacher ratio is 13.7:1 — 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.	Oakland Elementary School	57	515	elementary	Antioch Ccsd 34
2.	William L Thompson School	47	488	Combined	Lake Villa Ccsd 41
3.	Olive C Martin School	44	511	Combined	Lake Villa Ccsd 41
4.	Lakes Community High School	40	1,334	high	Chsd 117
5.	Peter J Palombi School	37	844	middle	Lake Villa Ccsd 41
6.	Pleviak Elem School	26	405	elementary	Round Lake Cusd 116

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Lake Villa

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 Lake Villa school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Oakland Elementary School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Lake Villa schools in this federal-data comparison at 57/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Lake Villa, IL? ▼

Lake Villa has 6 public schools with a total enrollment of 4,097 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 13.7:1.

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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.