NCES CCD 2024-25 6 schools IL

Best-Resourced Schools in Palos Heights, IL

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

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6
Schools
3,451
Students
48.8/100
Avg Resource Index
15.4:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

One campus shapes the city average

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Palos Heights has more public-school enrollment than 35% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. A B Shepard High Sch (Campus) enrolls 55.5% of Palos Heights'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

3 of Palos Heights's 6 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.

A small portfolio contains radically different campus scales

Palos Heights lists only 6 schools, yet reported enrollment runs from 174 to 1,916 students, a 11-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 65%
School count
Top 79%
Resource Index average
83rd percentile
Teacher staffing
49th percentile

A B Shepard High Sch (Campus) accounts for 55.5% of all Palos Heights public-school enrollment

That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Palos Heights a distant remainder — means Palos Heights-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. Because it contains a majority of the affected population, enrollment-weighted aggregates will sit closer to this entity's reported fields than to those of smaller peers; an unweighted entity count answers a different question.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Palos Heights school enrollment varies 11× across entities

Palos Heights school enrollment ranges from 174 students (lowest) to 1,916 students (highest), a spread of 1,742 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

Palos Heights student-teacher ratio is 15.4:1 — 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 Palos Heights is typically wider than the Palos Heights-aggregate figure suggests.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Palos East Elementary School 59
2. Chippewa Elem School 57
3. Navajo Heights Elem School 52
4. Independence Jr High School 50
5. Indian Hill 41
6. A B Shepard High Sch (Campus) 34

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Palos Heights

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 A B Shepard High Sch (Campus) 68.7/100
  2. 2 Navajo Heights Elem School 39.0/100
  3. 3 Palos East Elementary School 38.9/100
  4. 4 Indian Hill 35.6/100
  5. 5 Chippewa Elem School 34.2/100

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Which Palos Heights school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Palos East Elementary School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Palos Heights schools in this federal-data comparison at 59/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Palos Heights, IL? ▼

Palos Heights has 6 public schools with a total enrollment of 3,451 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 15.4:1.

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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.