At $20,956 per pupil, Armstrong Twp Hsd 225 ranks #195 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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$20,956
Per-Pupil Spending
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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 $20,956 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the upper half of 845 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).
Enrollment across the district's NCES-reporting campuses fell 15.6% between 2022-23 and 2023-24 (135 to 114 students), and the student-teacher ratio tightened by 0.9 students per teacher as staffing held steadier than enrollment, per the NCES Common Core of Data annual universe files.
Of the district's $4,822,000 in reported FY2023 expenditures, 34.7% went to instruction, 21.9% to support services, and 37.9% to capital outlay, a capital-heavy year, consistent with active construction, renovation, or major equipment purchases. Figures come from the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey's function-level breakdown, not the aggregate per-pupil figure above.
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 largest entity. Grade band: high. 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.
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.