At $10,933 per pupil, Bartelso Sd 57 ranks #837 of 845 Illinois districts by per-pupil spending (Illinois districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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District-Level NCES Analysis
Bartelso Sd 57 operates 1 public schools serving 164 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 Clinton County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $10,933 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, among the bottom 85 of 845 Illinois districts by per-pupil spending. See how Illinois compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 41.5% local, 47.2% state, and 11.3% federal, a balanced mix across local, state, and federal sources, spreading budget risk across funding cycles rather than concentrating it in one.
and 1.8% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 100.0% White across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Bartelso Elem School, enrolling 166 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Enrollment across the district's NCES-reporting campuses grew 2.4% between 2022-23 and 2023-24 (164 to 168 students), while the student-teacher ratio widened by 0.9 students per teacher, per the NCES Common Core of Data annual universe files.
Of the district's $2,062,000 in reported FY2023 expenditures, 56.1% went to instruction, 26.3% to support services, and 8.9% 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.
Bartelso Elem School accounts for 100.0% of all Bartelso Sd 57 student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Bartelso Sd 57 a distant remainder — means Bartelso Sd 57-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.
Bartelso Sd 57 chronic absenteeism rate is 1.8% — 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.