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Alton, Illinois - 9 schools
An equity score of 41/100 ranks Alton Cusd 11 #318 of 763 districts in Illinois (state average 38). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $14,490 per pupil, Alton Cusd 11 ranks #552 of 848 Illinois districts by per-pupil spending (Illinois districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
5,752
Total Enrollment
9
Schools
$14,490
Per-Pupil Spending
Elementary, Combined
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Alton Cusd 11 operates 9 public schools serving 5,752 students, placing it among the smaller districts in Illinois. The school portfolio breaks down into 4 elementary, 3 combined, 1 high, 1 middle schools, a compact enough portfolio that families can compare every campus directly before they move, rent, or enrol. These enrollment and school figures come from the NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 release, and the district is based in Madison County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $14,490 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the lower half of 848 Illinois districts by per-pupil spending. See how Illinois compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 43.9% local, 40.6% state, and 15.5% federal, a balanced mix across local, state, and federal sources, spreading budget risk across funding cycles rather than concentrating it in one. The district's equity score is 41/100, ranked #318 of 763 in Illinois against a state average of 38, in line with the typical spread seen across the state for how evenly funding reaches its schools.
Academic infrastructure includes 1 of 9 schools offering Advanced Placement (27 AP courses district-wide), a 455.8:1 student-counselor ratio, above both the ASCA benchmark and the roughly 408:1 national average, and 62.4% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 47.3% White, 31.4% African American, 5.6% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is West Elementary School, with a diversity index of 67.5/100.
Its largest campus is Alton High School, enrolling 1,823 students (35% of the district's total enrollment). Its smallest is Gilson Brown Elem School, at 176 students, a 10x enrollment spread across the district's campuses.
Alton High School accounts for 31.7% of all Alton Cusd 11 student enrollment
That dominant concentration means Alton Cusd 11-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the dominant entity. Grade band: high. 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.
Alton Cusd 11 school enrollment varies 10× across entities
Alton Cusd 11 school enrollment ranges from 176 students (lowest) to 1,823 students (highest), a spread of 1,647 students. That spread reflects typical mixed-portfolio variation between specialty programs and large neighbourhood schools. Per-school staffing ratios, programme availability, and capital-renovation cycles often diverge inside the same district based on enrollment shape.
Alton Cusd 11 student-counselor ratio is 456:1 — high (typically associated with staffing constraints that limit per-student counselor time; CRDC data shows higher ratios cluster in larger urban systems)
student-counselor ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE counselors against total enrollment, districts that contract intervention or social-emotional staff outside the counselor classification may be under-counted Higher values may reflect larger urban scale or recent resource constraints that have widened the gap.
Alton Cusd 11 chronic absenteeism rate is 62.4% — well above typical (typically associated with unusually large scale or acute resource constraints)
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 above typical often signal acute resource constraints or a structurally different scale than most peers — worth reading alongside the underlying counts, not the ratio alone.