NCES CCD 2024-25 7 schools IL

Best-Resourced Schools in Rock Falls, IL

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

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7
Schools
1,880
Students
37.6/100
Avg Resource Index
15.4:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Middle-of-corpus city profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Rock Falls has more public-school enrollment than 11% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Rock Falls 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.

A full K–12 ladder sits inside the city boundary

Rock Falls's list includes 3 elementary, 1 middle, and 1 high-school campus, plus 2 combined-grade records. The city average spans every major grade stage, so the ranked table is more informative when read within level than as one interchangeable queue.

Campus spread matters more than the city mean

The 35-point gap between East Coloma - Nelson Elem Sch and Riverdale Preschool Center shows the range hidden by Rock Falls'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 89%
School count
Top 65%
Resource Index average
35th percentile
Teacher staffing
49th percentile

Rock Falls Township High School accounts for 28.2% of all Rock Falls public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Rock Falls-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

Rock Falls school enrollment varies 3.7× across entities

Rock Falls school enrollment ranges from 145 students (lowest) to 530 students (highest), a spread of 385 students. That relatively narrow ratio reflects an unusually homogeneous school portfolio for a city this size. 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

Rock Falls 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 Rock Falls is typically wider than the Rock Falls-aggregate figure suggests.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. East Coloma - Nelson Elem Sch 50
2. Rock Falls Township High School 48
3. Merrill Elem School 42
4. Montmorency Ccsd #145 39
5. Dillon Elementary School 36
6. Rock Falls Middle School 33
7. Riverdale Preschool Center 15

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Rock Falls

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 Rock Falls Middle School 56.1/100
  2. 2 Dillon Elementary School 55.2/100
  3. 3 Riverdale Preschool Center 51.3/100
  4. 4 Merrill Elem School 48.4/100
  5. 5 Rock Falls Township High School 41.8/100

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Which Rock Falls school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

East Coloma - Nelson Elem Sch has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Rock Falls schools in this federal-data comparison at 50/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Rock Falls, IL? ▼

Rock Falls has 7 public schools with a total enrollment of 1,880 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.