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Armstrong, Illinois - 1 schools
At $18,346 per pupil, Armstrong Twp Hsd 225 ranks #255 of 848 Illinois districts by per-pupil spending (Illinois districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
135
Total Enrollment
1
Schools
$18,346
Per-Pupil Spending
High
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Armstrong Twp Hsd 225 operates 1 public schools serving 135 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Illinois. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 high 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 Vermilion County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $18,346 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 80.5% local, 16.5% state, and 3.0% federal, a local-revenue-heavy mix that leaves the district more exposed to property-tax swings and local ballot measures than state-funded peers.
Academic infrastructure includes 1 of 1 schools offering Advanced Placement (1 AP courses district-wide), a 114:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, and 56.1% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 91.2% White, 5.3% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Armstrong High School, enrolling 114 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Armstrong High School accounts for 84.4% of all Armstrong Twp Hsd 225 student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Armstrong Twp Hsd 225 a distant remainder — means Armstrong Twp Hsd 225-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.
Armstrong Twp Hsd 225 student-counselor ratio is 114:1 — well below typical (typically associated with unusually small scale or exceptionally high per-unit investment)
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 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.
Armstrong Twp Hsd 225 chronic absenteeism rate is 56.1% — 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.