NCES CCD 2024-25 9 schools IL

Best-Resourced Schools in Streamwood, IL

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

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9
Schools
5,302
Students
36.9/100
Avg Resource Index
14.5:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

One campus shapes the city average

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Streamwood has more public-school enrollment than 58% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Streamwood High School enrolls 35.6% of Streamwood'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.

A full K–12 ladder sits inside the city boundary

Streamwood's list includes 3 elementary, 2 middle, and 1 high-school campus, plus 3 combined-grade records. The city average spans every major grade stage, so the ranked table is more informative when read within level than as one interchangeable queue.

Campus spread matters more than the city mean

The 28-point gap between Ridge Circle Elem School and Canton Middle School shows the range hidden by Streamwood'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 42%
School count
Top 46%
Resource Index average
33rd percentile
Teacher staffing
61st percentile

Streamwood High School accounts for 35.6% of all Streamwood public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Streamwood-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

Streamwood school enrollment varies 7.2× across entities

Streamwood school enrollment ranges from 263 students (lowest) to 1,890 students (highest), a spread of 1,627 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

Streamwood operates one school district — a single-district system

Streamwood'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

Streamwood student-teacher ratio is 14.5:1 — 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 Streamwood is typically wider than the Streamwood-aggregate figure suggests.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Ridge Circle Elem School 54
2. Sunnydale Elem School 47
3. Glenbrook Elem School 41
4. Streamwood High School 37
5. Hanover Countryside Elem School 37
6. Tefft Middle School 32
7. Oakhill Elem School 32
8. Canton Middle School 26
9. Heritage Elem School 26

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Streamwood

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 Glenbrook Elem School 67.6/100
  2. 2 Hanover Countryside Elem School 65.6/100
  3. 3 Streamwood High School 58.9/100
  4. 4 Ridge Circle Elem School 57.3/100
  5. 5 Canton Middle School 57.0/100

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Which Streamwood school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Ridge Circle Elem School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Streamwood schools in this federal-data comparison at 54/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Streamwood, IL? ▼

Streamwood has 9 public schools with a total enrollment of 5,302 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 14.5:1.

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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.