NCES CCD 2024-25 12 schools IL

Best-Resourced Schools in Tinley Park, IL

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

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12
Schools
6,231
Students
46.6/100
Avg Resource Index
12.4:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Middle-of-corpus city profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Tinley Park has more public-school enrollment than 65% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Tinley Park sits in the broad middle of the national city distribution rather than at a single obvious extreme. Its scale, average Resource Investment Index, and staffing position need to be read together: a middle placement on one measure does not cancel a stronger or weaker result on another. The percentile panel makes those dimensions explicit, and the school table shows where the city aggregate breaks into materially different campus profiles.

Combined-grade campuses shape the local portfolio

7 of Tinley Park's 12 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 30-point gap between Bert H Fulton School and Tinley Park High School shows the range hidden by Tinley Park'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 35%
School count
Top 31%
Resource Index average
76th percentile
Teacher staffing
85th percentile

Tinley Park High School accounts for 16.7% of all Tinley Park public-school enrollment

That concentration means Tinley Park-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

Tinley Park school enrollment varies 5.8× across entities

Tinley Park school enrollment ranges from 181 students (lowest) to 1,042 students (highest), a spread of 861 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

Tinley Park operates 5 school districts — among the most fragmented governance structures in the country

Each school district has independent budgeting, hiring, and service delivery authority. The fragmentation reflects historical patterns of inter-municipal boundary lines that pre-date modern city growth, students in different parts of the same city can attend different districts with different per-pupil spending, calendars, and graduation requirements. Per-region variation is largest in fragmented systems because each school district sets its own budget, contracts, and priorities without higher-level coordination above the regulatory floor.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Tinley Park student-teacher ratio is 12.4:1 — 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. Bert H Fulton School 62
2. Millennium Elem School 57
3. Memorial Elem School 56
4. Central Middle School 51
5. Helen Keller Elem School 50
6. John a Bannes Elem School 48
7. Virgil I Grissom Middle School 44
8. Prairie View Middle School 43
9. Christa Mcauliffe School 43
10. Kimberly Heights Elem School 39
11. Walker Intermediate School 34
12. Tinley Park High School 32

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Tinley Park

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 Kimberly Heights Elem School 72.1/100
  2. 2 Tinley Park High School 68.2/100
  3. 3 Memorial Elem School 62.4/100
  4. 4 Bert H Fulton School 62.3/100
  5. 5 Central Middle School 61.7/100

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Which Tinley Park school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Bert H Fulton School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Tinley Park schools in this federal-data comparison at 62/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Tinley Park, IL? ▼

Tinley Park has 12 public schools with a total enrollment of 6,231 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 12.4:1.

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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.