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Ransom, Illinois - 1 schools
At $18,479 per pupil, Allen-Otter Creek Ccsd 65 ranks #246 of 848 Illinois districts by per-pupil spending (Illinois districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
96
Total Enrollment
1
Schools
$18,479
Per-Pupil Spending
Elementary
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Allen-Otter Creek Ccsd 65 operates 1 public schools serving 96 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Illinois. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 elementary schools, a small enough portfolio that most families will interact with nearly every campus in the district at some point. These enrollment and school figures come from the NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 release, and the district is based in Lasalle County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $18,479 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the upper half of 848 Illinois districts by per-pupil spending. See how Illinois compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 79.9% local, 12.4% state, and 7.7% federal, a local-revenue-heavy mix that leaves the district more exposed to property-tax swings and local ballot measures than state-funded peers.
and 2.1% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 86.5% White, 8.3% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Ransom Grade School, enrolling 96 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Ransom Grade School accounts for 100.0% of all Allen-Otter Creek Ccsd 65 student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Allen-Otter Creek Ccsd 65 a distant remainder — means Allen-Otter Creek Ccsd 65-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the dominant entity. Grade band: elementary. A single dominant campus often anchors a district's program offerings and staffing patterns; the share helps explain why district-wide averages may not reflect the typical neighbourhood-school experience. When one entity dominates a region's footprint, its programmatic and budget decisions effectively set policy for a majority of the affected population.
Allen-Otter Creek Ccsd 65 chronic absenteeism rate is 2.1% — well below typical (typically associated with unusually small scale or exceptionally high per-unit investment)
chronic absenteeism rate is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: a student is chronically absent if they miss ≥10% of enrolled days for any reason, illness, family obligations, or disengagement Values this far below typical often correlate with unusually small scale or population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se — worth checking whether the underlying denominator is itself an outlier.