NCES CCD 2024-25 6 schools IL

Best-Resourced Schools in Sandwich, IL

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6 public K-12 schools in Sandwich 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
1,872
Students
44.8/100
Avg Resource Index
13.8:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Compact, single-district system

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Sandwich has more public-school enrollment than 10% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Sandwich's 6 listed schools all sit inside one district, creating a compact governance structure with one budget, board, and reporting chain. That makes citywide comparisons cleaner than in places split across several districts, but it does not make the campuses interchangeable: elementary, middle, and high-school staffing needs differ. The ranked list is best read as variation inside one system rather than competition among separate local authorities.

Combined-grade campuses shape the local portfolio

3 of Sandwich's 6 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 15-point gap between Prairie View Elem School and Sandwich Community High School shows the range hidden by Sandwich'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 90%
School count
Top 79%
Resource Index average
69th percentile
Teacher staffing
69th percentile

Sandwich Community High School accounts for 29.9% of all Sandwich public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Sandwich-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

Sandwich school enrollment varies 3.3× across entities

Sandwich school enrollment ranges from 170 students (lowest) to 560 students (highest), a spread of 390 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

Sandwich operates one school district — a single-district system

Sandwich'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

Sandwich student-teacher ratio is 13.8:1 — 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

# School Score
1. Prairie View Elem School 50
2. Herman E Dummer 49
3. Lynn G Haskin Elementary School 49
4. W W Woodbury Elem School 48
5. Sandwich Middle School 38
6. Sandwich Community High School 35

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Sandwich

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 W W Woodbury Elem School 44.0/100
  2. 2 Sandwich Community High School 41.9/100
  3. 3 Sandwich Middle School 41.2/100
  4. 4 Lynn G Haskin Elementary School 39.7/100
  5. 5 Herman E Dummer 35.6/100

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Which Sandwich school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Prairie View Elem School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Sandwich 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 Sandwich, IL? ▼

Sandwich has 6 public schools with a total enrollment of 1,872 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 13.8:1.

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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.