NCES CCD 2024-25 8 schools IL

Best-Resourced Schools in Lansing, IL

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

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8
Schools
5,375
Students
29.1/100
Avg Resource Index
15.7:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Lean reported-resource profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Lansing has more public-school enrollment than 59% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Lansing's average Resource Investment Index falls in the lower portion of the 4,487-city comparison set. The index is a resource snapshot, not an academic grade: it reflects the federal staffing, counselor, gifted-program, and attendance fields available for local campuses. The most useful next step is to open the individual schools below and identify which component is pulling each score down, because the same city average can hide very different campus-level constraints.

The school portfolio is elementary-weighted

4 of Lansing's 8 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

Lansing lists only 8 schools, yet reported enrollment runs from 135 to 1,803 students, a 13-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 41%
School count
Top 54%
Resource Index average
10th percentile
Teacher staffing
46th percentile

Thornton Fractnl So High School accounts for 33.5% of all Lansing public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Lansing-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

Lansing school enrollment varies 13× across entities

Lansing school enrollment ranges from 135 students (lowest) to 1,803 students (highest), a spread of 1,668 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

Lansing student-teacher ratio is 15.7:1 — 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 Lansing is typically wider than the Lansing-aggregate figure suggests.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Lester Crawl Primary Ctr 38
2. Heritage Middle School 36
3. Coolidge Elementary School 31
4. Oak Glen Elem School 31
5. Thornton Fractnl So High School 28
6. Reavis Elem School 25
7. Nathan Hale Elem School 23
8. Memorial Jr High School 21

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Lansing

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 Coolidge Elementary School 58.5/100
  2. 2 Memorial Jr High School 56.4/100
  3. 3 Lester Crawl Primary Ctr 53.0/100
  4. 4 Reavis Elem School 50.8/100
  5. 5 Oak Glen Elem School 48.1/100

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Which Lansing school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Lester Crawl Primary Ctr has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Lansing schools in this federal-data comparison at 38/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Lansing, IL? ▼

Lansing has 8 public schools with a total enrollment of 5,375 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 15.7:1.

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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.