NCES CCD 2024-25 14 schools IL

Best-Resourced Schools in New Lenox, IL

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

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14
Schools
8,994
Students
50.1/100
Avg Resource Index
16.7:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Middle-of-corpus city profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, New Lenox has more public-school enrollment than 77% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. New Lenox sits in the broad middle of the national city distribution rather than at a single obvious extreme. Its scale, average Resource Investment Index, and staffing position need to be read together: a middle placement on one measure does not cancel a stronger or weaker result on another. The percentile panel makes those dimensions explicit, and the school table shows where the city aggregate breaks into materially different campus profiles.

The school portfolio is elementary-weighted

9 of New Lenox's 14 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 2 high-school records. Families comparing later grades should rely on those individual rows rather than the all-school mean.

The composite and staffing measures point in different directions

New Lenox's average Resource Investment Index sits at the 87th percentile, while its teacher-staffing measure sits at the 36th percentile. The 51-point percentile gap is a reminder that the index is not a class-size score: counselors, gifted-program reporting, and attendance also affect it. Compare those components directly when two schools have similar index totals; the same headline score can arise from a different mix of reported resources.

City enrollment
Top 23%
School count
Top 25%
Resource Index average
87th percentile
Teacher staffing
36th percentile

Lincoln Way West accounts for 22.8% of all New Lenox public-school enrollment

That concentration means New Lenox-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

New Lenox school enrollment varies 15× across entities

New Lenox school enrollment ranges from 141 students (lowest) to 2,047 students (highest), a spread of 1,906 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

New Lenox student-teacher ratio is 16.7:1 — 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 New Lenox is typically wider than the New Lenox-aggregate figure suggests.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Nelson Ridge School 61
2. Oster-Oakview School 61
3. Cherry Hill Elem and Ec Center 60
4. Alex M Martino Jr High School 59
5. Spencer Crossing 59
6. Liberty Junior High School 58
7. Bentley Elem School 57
8. Haines Elem School 50
9. Spencer Pointe 47
10. Arnold J Tyler School 43
11. Lincoln-Way Central High School 42
12. Nelson Prairie School 38
13. Spencer Trail 35
14. Lincoln Way West 32

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in New Lenox

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 Cherry Hill Elem and Ec Center 48.0/100
  2. 2 Oster-Oakview School 40.1/100
  3. 3 Haines Elem School 38.9/100
  4. 4 Liberty Junior High School 36.7/100
  5. 5 Bentley Elem School 35.6/100

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Which New Lenox school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Nelson Ridge School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the New Lenox schools in this federal-data comparison at 61/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in New Lenox, IL? ▼

New Lenox has 14 public schools with a total enrollment of 8,994 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 16.7:1.

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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.