NCES CCD 2024-25 10 schools IL

Best-Resourced Schools in Urbana, IL

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

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10
Schools
4,672
Students
26.7/100
Avg Resource Index
14.8:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Lean reported-resource profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Urbana has more public-school enrollment than 52% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Urbana's average Resource Investment Index falls in the lower portion of the 4,487-city comparison set. The index is a resource snapshot, not an academic grade: it reflects the federal staffing, counselor, gifted-program, and attendance fields available for local campuses. The most useful next step is to open the individual schools below and identify which component is pulling each score down, because the same city average can hide very different campus-level constraints.

The school portfolio is elementary-weighted

6 of Urbana's 10 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.

The composite and staffing measures point in different directions

Urbana's average Resource Investment Index sits at the 6th percentile, while its teacher-staffing measure sits at the 57th percentile. The 51-point percentile gap is a reminder that the index is not a class-size score: counselors, gifted-program reporting, and attendance also affect it. Compare those components directly when two schools have similar index totals; the same headline score can arise from a different mix of reported resources.

City enrollment
Top 48%
School count
Top 41%
Resource Index average
6th percentile
Teacher staffing
57th percentile

Urbana High School accounts for 25.2% of all Urbana public-school enrollment

That concentration means Urbana-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

Urbana school enrollment varies 5.0× across entities

Urbana school enrollment ranges from 234 students (lowest) to 1,176 students (highest), a spread of 942 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

Urbana student-teacher ratio is 14.8:1 — 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 Urbana is typically wider than the Urbana-aggregate figure suggests.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. University of Illinois High Sch 33
2. Urbana Middle School 31
3. Urbana High School 30
4. Yankee Ridge Elem School 30
5. Dr Preston L Williams Jr Elem Sch 26
6. Leal Elem School 26
7. Thomas Paine Elem School 24
8. Urbana Early Childhood Ctr 24
9. Wiley Elementary School 24
10. M L King Jr Elem School 19

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Urbana

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 University of Illinois High Sch 73.5/100
  2. 2 Urbana High School 73.4/100
  3. 3 Urbana Middle School 72.4/100
  4. 4 Leal Elem School 71.5/100
  5. 5 Thomas Paine Elem School 69.2/100

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Which Urbana school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

University of Illinois High Sch has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Urbana schools in this federal-data comparison at 33/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Urbana, IL? ▼

Urbana has 10 public schools with a total enrollment of 4,672 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 14.8:1.

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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.