NCES CCD 2024-25 5 schools IL

Best-Resourced Schools in Summit, IL

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

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5
Schools
3,122
Students
37.2/100
Avg Resource Index
11:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

One campus shapes the city average

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Summit has more public-school enrollment than 31% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Argo Community High School enrolls 58.2% of Summit'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

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

A small portfolio contains radically different campus scales

Summit lists only 5 schools, yet reported enrollment runs from 114 to 1,817 students, a 16-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 69%
School count
Top 99%
Resource Index average
34th percentile
Teacher staffing
95th percentile

Argo Community High School accounts for 58.2% of all Summit public-school enrollment

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

Summit school enrollment varies 16× across entities

Summit school enrollment ranges from 114 students (lowest) to 1,817 students (highest), a spread of 1,703 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

Summit student-teacher ratio is 11.0:1 — 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. Dr Donald Wharton Elem School 45
2. Otis P Graves Elem School 39
3. Heritage Middle School 35
4. Argo Community High School 34
5. Walsh Elem School 33

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Summit

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 Argo Community High School 59.5/100
  2. 2 Walsh Elem School 39.9/100
  3. 3 Dr Donald Wharton Elem School 35.5/100
  4. 4 Heritage Middle School 26.9/100
  5. 5 Otis P Graves Elem School 6.3/100

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Which Summit school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Dr Donald Wharton Elem School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Summit schools in this federal-data comparison at 45/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Summit, IL? ▼

Summit has 5 public schools with a total enrollment of 3,122 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 11:1.

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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.