NCES CCD 2024-25 13 schools IL

Best-Resourced Schools in Lombard, IL

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

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13
Schools
6,418
Students
45.2/100
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, Lombard has more public-school enrollment than 66% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Glenbard East High School enrolls 36.0% of Lombard'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

10 of Lombard's 13 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 32-point gap between Park View Elem School and Stevenson School shows the range hidden by Lombard'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 34%
School count
Top 28%
Resource Index average
71st percentile
Teacher staffing
69th percentile

Glenbard East High School accounts for 36.0% of all Lombard public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Lombard-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

Lombard school enrollment varies 15× across entities

Lombard school enrollment ranges from 159 students (lowest) to 2,311 students (highest), a spread of 2,152 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

Lombard 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

# School Score
1. Park View Elem School 57
2. Westmore Elem School 54
3. Pleasant Lane Elem School 54
4. Manor Hill Elem School 53
5. Wm Hammerschmidt Elem School 52
6. York Center Elem School 52
7. Madison Elementary School 51
8. Butterfield Elem School 49
9. Glenn Westlake Middle School 44
10. Schafer Elem School 42
11. Glenbard East High School 30
12. Stevenson School 25
13. John Schroder Early Childhood Ctr 25

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Lombard

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 York Center Elem School 74.5/100
  2. 2 Stevenson School 73.0/100
  3. 3 Manor Hill Elem School 70.0/100
  4. 4 Glenbard East High School 68.2/100
  5. 5 Butterfield Elem School 65.4/100

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Which Lombard school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Park View Elem School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Lombard 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 Lombard, IL? ▼

Lombard has 13 public schools with a total enrollment of 6,418 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.