NCES CCD 2024-25 12 schools IL

Best-Resourced Schools in Rock Island, IL

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

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12
Schools
6,015
Students
32.5/100
Avg Resource Index
17.3:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Lean reported-resource profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Rock Island has more public-school enrollment than 63% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Rock Island's average Resource Investment Index falls in the lower portion of the 4,487-city comparison set. The index is a resource snapshot, not an academic grade: it reflects the federal staffing, counselor, gifted-program, and attendance fields available for local campuses. The most useful next step is to open the individual schools below and identify which component is pulling each score down, because the same city average can hide very different campus-level constraints.

Combined-grade campuses shape the local portfolio

7 of Rock Island's 12 listed schools use NCES's combined or “other” grade-level classification. Citywide averages therefore blend campuses serving unusually broad or nonstandard grade spans with conventional elementary, middle, and high schools. Grade configuration is a first-order comparison here, not a minor label.

Campus spread matters more than the city mean

The 41-point gap between Earl H Hanson Elem School and Horace Mann Elc shows the range hidden by Rock Island'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 37%
School count
Top 31%
Resource Index average
18th percentile
Teacher staffing
31st percentile

Rock Island High School accounts for 30.1% of all Rock Island public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Rock Island-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 Island school enrollment varies 9.0× across entities

Rock Island school enrollment ranges from 201 students (lowest) to 1,812 students (highest), a spread of 1,611 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 Island operates one school district — a single-district system

Rock Island's listed schools share one district boundary, budget authority, and reporting chain. That makes citywide and districtwide governance easier to compare, but it does not make individual campuses uniform: grade configuration, staffing, programs, and student need can still vary materially within the same school district.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Rock Island student-teacher ratio is 17.3:1 — 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 Island is typically wider than the Rock Island-aggregate figure suggests.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Earl H Hanson Elem School 56
2. Ridgewood Elem School 47
3. Denkmann Elem School 43
4. Frances Willard Elem School 43
5. Ricms 38
6. Eugene Field Elem School 32
7. Longfellow Elem School 30
8. Washington Jr High School 27
9. Rock Island High School 21
10. Edison Jr High School 21
11. Rock Island Academy 17
12. Horace Mann Elc 15

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Rock Island

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 Denkmann Elem School 74.2/100
  2. 2 Earl H Hanson Elem School 74.2/100
  3. 3 Horace Mann Elc 73.3/100
  4. 4 Washington Jr High School 73.2/100
  5. 5 Rock Island High School 73.1/100

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

Earl H Hanson Elem School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Rock Island schools in this federal-data comparison at 56/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Rock Island, IL? ▼

Rock Island has 12 public schools with a total enrollment of 6,015 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 17.3:1.

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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.