NCES CCD 2024-25 7 schools IL

Best-Resourced Schools in South Holland, IL

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

7 public K-12 schools in South Holland 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

3,466

Students

29.1/100

Avg Resource Index

14.3:1

Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

One campus shapes the city average

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, South Holland has more public-school enrollment than 36% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Thornwood High School enrolls 53.2% of South Holland'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

4 of South Holland's 7 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.

A small portfolio contains radically different campus scales

South Holland lists only 7 schools, yet reported enrollment runs from 176 to 1,843 students, a 10-fold range. In a portfolio this compact, the smallest record may be a specialized or nonstandard setting rather than a miniature version of the largest campus. That distinction affects how ratios and program fields should be read. Compare similarly configured grade levels first; combining the extremes into one city average conceals more than it explains.

City enrollment: Top 64%
School count: Top 65%
Resource Index average: 10th percentile
Teacher staffing: 63rd percentile

Thornwood High School accounts for 53.2% of all South Holland public-school enrollment

That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of South Holland a distant remainder — means South Holland-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

South Holland school enrollment varies 10× across entities

South Holland school enrollment ranges from 176 students (lowest) to 1,843 students (highest), a spread of 1,667 students. That spread reflects typical urban portfolio variation between specialty programs and large neighbourhood schools. 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

South Holland student-teacher ratio is 14.3:1 — 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 South Holland is typically wider than the South Holland-aggregate figure suggests.

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

#	School	Score	Enrollment	Level	District
1.	Thornwood High School	42	1,843	high	Thornton Twp Hsd 205
2.	Mckinley Jr High School	36	287	middle	South Holland Sd 150
3.	Madison School	32	277	elementary	South Holland Sd 151
4.	Eisenhower School	27	274	elementary	South Holland Sd 151
5.	Greenwood Elem School	25	321	Combined	South Holland Sd 150
6.	New Beginnings Learning Academy	22	288	elementary	Dolton Sd 149
7.	Mckinley Elem School	20	176	elementary	South Holland Sd 150

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in South Holland

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.

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Which South Holland school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Thornwood High School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the South Holland schools in this federal-data comparison at 42/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in South Holland, IL? ▼

South Holland has 7 public schools with a total enrollment of 3,466 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 14.3:1.

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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.