NCES CCD 2024-25 7 schools IL

Best-Resourced Schools in Villa Park, IL

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7 public K-12 schools in Villa 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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7
Schools
4,210
Students
37.7/100
Avg Resource Index
14.6:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

One campus shapes the city average

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Villa Park has more public-school enrollment than 47% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Willowbrook High School enrolls 47.1% of Villa Park'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

Villa Park's list includes 3 elementary, 2 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

Villa Park lists only 7 schools, yet reported enrollment runs from 183 to 1,983 students, a 11-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 53%
School count
Top 65%
Resource Index average
36th percentile
Teacher staffing
60th percentile

Willowbrook High School accounts for 47.1% of all Villa Park public-school enrollment

That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Villa Park a distant remainder — means Villa 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

Villa Park school enrollment varies 11× across entities

Villa Park school enrollment ranges from 183 students (lowest) to 1,983 students (highest), a spread of 1,800 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

Villa Park student-teacher ratio is 14.6:1 — 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 Villa Park is typically wider than the Villa Park-aggregate figure suggests.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Ardmore Elem School 52
2. North Elem School 47
3. John E Albright Middle School 46
4. Jackson Middle School 38
5. Jefferson Middle School 35
6. Willowbrook High School 30
7. District 45 Early Education Ctr 16

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Villa 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 District 45 Early Education Ctr 73.2/100
  2. 2 Willowbrook High School 67.3/100
  3. 3 Jackson Middle School 67.2/100
  4. 4 John E Albright Middle School 64.0/100
  5. 5 North Elem School 58.6/100

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

Ardmore Elem School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Villa Park schools in this federal-data comparison at 52/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Villa Park, IL? ▼

Villa Park has 7 public schools with a total enrollment of 4,210 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 14.6:1.

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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.