NCES CCD 2024-25 8 schools IL

Best-Resourced Schools in Mount Prospect, IL

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

8 public K-12 schools in Mount Prospect 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

3,365

Students

53.5/100

Avg Resource Index

12.1:1

Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Broad resource and staffing advantage

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Mount Prospect has more public-school enrollment than 34% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Mount Prospect lands in the upper national tier on both the average Resource Investment Index and teacher staffing intensity. Those measures come from different inputs: the index combines reported counselors, gifted access, attendance, and staffing, while the staffing percentile compares the city's student-teacher ratio directly. Agreement across both measures is stronger evidence of broad reported capacity than either score alone, though neither is a test-score rating or a guarantee about an individual classroom.

The school portfolio is elementary-weighted

4 of Mount Prospect'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 2 middle and 0 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 28-point gap between Indian Grove Elem School and Holmes Jr High School shows the range hidden by Mount Prospect'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 66%
School count: Top 54%
Resource Index average: 94th percentile
Teacher staffing: 88th percentile

Robert Frost Elem School accounts for 15.8% of all Mount Prospect public-school enrollment

That concentration means Mount Prospect-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade level: Combined. 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

Mount Prospect student-teacher ratio is 12.1:1 — 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.	Indian Grove Elem School	64	435	elementary	River Trails Sd 26
2.	River Trails Middle School	63	508	middle	River Trails Sd 26
3.	Robert Frost Elem School	59	359	elementary	Comm Cons Sd 59
4.	Euclid Elem School	58	344	Combined	River Trails Sd 26
5.	Robert Frost Elem School	51	532	Combined	Wheeling Ccsd 21
6.	Forest View Elem School	50	339	elementary	Comm Cons Sd 59
7.	John Jay Elem School	47	389	elementary	Comm Cons Sd 59
8.	Holmes Jr High School	36	459	middle	Comm Cons Sd 59

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Mount Prospect

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 Mount Prospect school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Indian Grove Elem School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Mount Prospect schools in this federal-data comparison at 64/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Mount Prospect, IL? ▼

Mount Prospect has 8 public schools with a total enrollment of 3,365 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 12.1:1.

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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.