NCES CCD 2024-25 7 schools IL

Best-Resourced Schools in Libertyville, IL

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7 public K-12 schools in Libertyville 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
4,878
Students
60.7/100
Avg Resource Index
12.9:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

One campus shapes the city average

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Libertyville has more public-school enrollment than 54% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Libertyville High School enrolls 36.4% of Libertyville'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 Libertyville'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.

Campus spread matters more than the city mean

The 22-point gap between Adler Park School and Libertyville High School shows the range hidden by Libertyville'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 46%
School count
Top 65%
Resource Index average
99th percentile
Teacher staffing
80th percentile

Libertyville High School accounts for 36.4% of all Libertyville public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Libertyville-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

Libertyville school enrollment varies 7.5× across entities

Libertyville school enrollment ranges from 238 students (lowest) to 1,777 students (highest), a spread of 1,539 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

Libertyville student-teacher ratio is 12.9:1 — 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. Adler Park School 70
2. Copeland Manor Elem School 68
3. Butterfield School 65
4. Rockland Elem School 64
5. Oak Grove Elem School 61
6. Highland Middle School 49
7. Libertyville High School 48

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Libertyville

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 Oak Grove Elem School 59.9/100
  2. 2 Adler Park School 51.0/100
  3. 3 Libertyville High School 47.6/100
  4. 4 Butterfield School 46.1/100
  5. 5 Rockland Elem School 39.4/100

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Which Libertyville school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Adler Park School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Libertyville schools in this federal-data comparison at 70/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Libertyville, IL? ▼

Libertyville has 7 public schools with a total enrollment of 4,878 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 12.9:1.

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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.