NCES CCD 2024-25 5 schools IL

Best-Resourced Schools in Round Lake, IL

Compiled from official source data by PlainSchools. · Updated August 2026

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

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Schools

3,902

Students

41.6/100

Avg Resource Index

12.7:1

Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

One campus shapes the city average

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Round Lake has more public-school enrollment than 43% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Round Lake Senior High School enrolls 56.2% of Round Lake'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 Round Lake's 5 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.

Campus spread matters more than the city mean

The 17-point gap between Park West School and Round Lake Senior High School shows the range hidden by Round Lake'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 57%
School count: Top 99%
Resource Index average: 53rd percentile
Teacher staffing: 82nd percentile

Round Lake Senior High School accounts for 56.2% of all Round Lake public-school enrollment

That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Round Lake a distant remainder — means Round Lake-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 Accessed 2026-08-26

Round Lake school enrollment varies 7.0× across entities

Round Lake school enrollment ranges from 312 students (lowest) to 2,194 students (highest), a spread of 1,882 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 Accessed 2026-08-26

Round Lake student-teacher ratio is 12.7:1 — low (typically associated with smaller schools or per-school staffing investment that often correlates with stronger per-student supports)

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 Lower values often correlate with smaller scale and population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe Accessed 2026-08-26

#	School	Score	Enrollment	Level	District
1.	Park West School	49	321	elementary	Grayslake Ccsd 46
2.	Park East School	48	312	elementary	Grayslake Ccsd 46
3.	Magee Middle School	43	642	middle	Round Lake Cusd 116
4.	Village Elementary School	36	433	elementary	Round Lake Cusd 116
5.	Round Lake Senior High School	32	2,194	high	Round Lake Cusd 116

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Round Lake

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 Park East School 69.9/100
2 Park West School 69.5/100
3 Village Elementary School 41.4/100
4 Magee Middle School 35.6/100
5 Round Lake Senior High School 34.9/100

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Which Round Lake school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Park West School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Round Lake schools in this federal-data comparison at 49/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Round Lake, IL? ▼

Round Lake has 5 public schools with a total enrollment of 3,902 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 12.7:1.

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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.