NCES CCD 2024-25 9 schools IL

Best-Resourced Schools in Mchenry, IL

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

9 public K-12 schools in Mchenry 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

6,239

Students

41.1/100

Avg Resource Index

12.8:1

Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

One campus shapes the city average

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Mchenry has more public-school enrollment than 65% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Mchenry Community High School enrolls 35.5% of Mchenry'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

5 of Mchenry's 9 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 2 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

Mchenry lists only 9 schools, yet reported enrollment runs from 189 to 2,214 students, a 12-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 35%
School count: Top 46%
Resource Index average: 51st percentile
Teacher staffing: 81st percentile

Mchenry Community High School accounts for 35.5% of all Mchenry public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Mchenry-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

Mchenry school enrollment varies 12× across entities

Mchenry school enrollment ranges from 189 students (lowest) to 2,214 students (highest), a spread of 2,025 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 Accessed 2026-08-26

Mchenry student-teacher ratio is 12.8:1 — 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 Accessed 2026-08-26

#	School	Score	Enrollment	Level	District
1.	Edgebrook Elem School	45	494	Combined	Mchenry Ccsd 15
2.	Chauncey H Duker School	45	433	elementary	Mchenry Ccsd 15
3.	Landmark Elem School	45	189	elementary	Mchenry Ccsd 15
4.	Riverwood Elementary School	42	619	elementary	Mchenry Ccsd 15
5.	Mchenry Middle School	41	695	middle	Mchenry Ccsd 15
6.	Parkland School	41	645	middle	Mchenry Ccsd 15
7.	Hilltop Elem School	40	424	elementary	Mchenry Ccsd 15
8.	Valley View Elem School	38	526	elementary	Mchenry Ccsd 15
9.	Mchenry Community High School	33	2,214	high	Mchenry Chsd 156

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Mchenry

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 Mchenry school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Edgebrook Elem School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Mchenry schools in this federal-data comparison at 45/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Mchenry, IL? ▼

Mchenry has 9 public schools with a total enrollment of 6,239 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 12.8:1.

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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.