NCES CCD 2024-25 6 schools IL

Best-Resourced Schools in Winnetka, IL

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

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6
Schools
4,573
Students
54/100
Avg Resource Index
10.8:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

One campus shapes the city average

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Winnetka has more public-school enrollment than 51% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. New Trier Township H S Winnetka enrolls 60.6% of Winnetka'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.

The school portfolio is elementary-weighted

4 of Winnetka's 6 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.

Campus spread matters more than the city mean

The 19-point gap between Carleton W Washburne School and New Trier Township H S Winnetka shows the range hidden by Winnetka'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 49%
School count
Top 79%
Resource Index average
94th percentile
Teacher staffing
96th percentile

New Trier Township H S Winnetka accounts for 60.6% of all Winnetka public-school enrollment

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

Winnetka school enrollment varies 7.9× across entities

Winnetka school enrollment ranges from 350 students (lowest) to 2,770 students (highest), a spread of 2,420 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

Winnetka student-teacher ratio is 10.8:1 — 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. Carleton W Washburne School 59
2. Crow Island Elem School 59
3. The Skokie School 57
4. Hubbard Woods Elem School 55
5. Greeley Elem School 54
6. New Trier Township H S Winnetka 40

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Winnetka

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 New Trier Township H S Winnetka 43.2/100
  2. 2 Greeley Elem School 25.4/100
  3. 3 The Skokie School 25.2/100
  4. 4 Crow Island Elem School 19.1/100
  5. 5 Hubbard Woods Elem School 18.0/100

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Which Winnetka school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Carleton W Washburne School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Winnetka schools in this federal-data comparison at 59/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Winnetka, IL? ▼

Winnetka has 6 public schools with a total enrollment of 4,573 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 10.8:1.

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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.