At $13,811 per pupil, Allendale Ccsd 17 ranks #706 of 845 Illinois districts by per-pupil spending (Illinois districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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Total Enrollment
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District-Level NCES Analysis
Allendale Ccsd 17 operates 1 public schools serving 143 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Illinois. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 combined 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 Wabash County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $13,811 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the lower half of 845 Illinois districts by per-pupil spending. See how Illinois compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis.
and 22.9% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 97.7% White, 0.8% Asian across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Allendale Elementary School, enrolling 131 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Enrollment across the district's NCES-reporting campuses fell 4.2% between 2022-23 and 2023-24 (143 to 137 students), and the student-teacher ratio held roughly steady, per the NCES Common Core of Data annual universe files.
Of the district's $2,467,000 in reported FY2023 expenditures, 47.1% went to instruction, 28.4% to support services, and 6% to capital outlay, a fairly typical instruction/support/capital split for a public school district. Figures come from the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey's function-level breakdown, not the aggregate per-pupil figure above.
Allendale Elementary School accounts for 91.6% of all Allendale Ccsd 17 student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Allendale Ccsd 17 a distant remainder — means Allendale Ccsd 17-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade band: combined. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how the district allocates 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.
Allendale Ccsd 17 chronic absenteeism rate is 22.9% — near the typical range (US average ~28) — aligned with the national post-pandemic baseline of roughly 28% chronic absenteeism
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 Variation between sub-units within Allendale Ccsd 17 is typically wider than the Allendale Ccsd 17-aggregate figure suggests.