NCES CCD 2024-25 44 schools IL

Best-Resourced Schools in Rockford, IL

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

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44
Schools
28,467
Students
25.1/100
Avg Resource Index
18.8:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Lean reported-resource profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Rockford has more public-school enrollment than 96% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Rockford'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.

The school portfolio is elementary-weighted

27 of Rockford's 44 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 6 middle and 5 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 77-point gap between Roosevelt Center and Legacy Acad of Excellence Charter shows the range hidden by Rockford'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.

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Rockford school enrollment varies 37× across entities

Rockford school enrollment ranges from 60 students (lowest) to 2,216 students (highest), a spread of 2,156 students. That ratio is among the widest observed and reflects extreme heterogeneity inside a single city, with small specialty programs listed alongside large comprehensive campuses. 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

Rockford operates one school district — a single-district system

Rockford'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

Rockford student-teacher ratio is 18.8:1 — high (typically associated with larger urban scale or staffing constraints that have widened the headcount gap)

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 Higher values may reflect larger urban scale or recent resource constraints that have widened the gap.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Roosevelt Center 87
2. Thurgood Marshall Elementary 49
3. Kennedy Middle School 48
4. Auburn High School 46
5. Thurgood Marshall School 45
6. Bernard W Flinn Middle School 38
7. Rockford East High School 35
8. West Middle School 35
9. Riverdahl Elem School 29
10. Rockford Envrnmntl Science Acad 28
11. Barbour Two-Way Lang Immersion 25
12. Rolling Green 25
13. Beyer Early Childhood Center 25
14. Conklin Elem School 24
15. Guilford High School 23
16. Abraham Lincoln Middle School 23
17. Galapagos Rockford Charter Sch 23
18. Washington Elementary School 22
19. Gregory Elem School 22
20. Lewis Lemon Elementary 22
21. Jefferson High School 21
22. Eisenhower Middle School 21
23. Ellis Elementary School 21
24. Arthur Froberg Elem School 21
25. Mcintosh Elementary 21
26. Julia Lathrop Elem School 21
27. Haskell Elementary School 21
28. Whitehead Elem School 20
29. Montessori Elementary School 19
30. Swan Hillman Elem School 19
31. Wm Nashold Early Childhood Center 19
32. Constance Lane Elementary School 18
33. West View Elem School 18
34. Maud E Johnson Elem School 18
35. Spring Creek Elem School 17
36. Summerdale Early Childhood Center 17
37. C Henry Bloom Elem School 17
38. Clifford P Carlson Elem School 17
39. Cherry Valley Elementary School 16
40. Brookview Elem School 16
41. Fairview Early Childhood Center 15
42. R K Welsh Elem School 15
43. Jackson Charter School 11
44. Legacy Acad of Excellence Charter 10

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Rockford

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 Maud E Johnson Elem School 75.6/100
  2. 2 Fairview Early Childhood Center 74.9/100
  3. 3 Rockford East High School 74.2/100
  4. 4 C Henry Bloom Elem School 73.5/100
  5. 5 Haskell Elementary School 73.5/100

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Which Rockford school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Roosevelt Center has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Rockford schools in this federal-data comparison at 87/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Rockford, IL? ▼

Rockford has 44 public schools with a total enrollment of 28,467 students. 3 are charter schools. Average student-teacher ratio: 18.8:1.

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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.