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Beach Park, Illinois - 5 schools
An equity score of 43/100 ranks Beach Park Ccsd 3 #265 of 763 districts in Illinois (state average 38). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $17,621 per pupil, Beach Park Ccsd 3 ranks #309 of 848 Illinois districts by per-pupil spending (Illinois districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
2,022
Total Enrollment
5
Schools
$17,621
Per-Pupil Spending
Elementary, Middle
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Beach Park Ccsd 3 operates 5 public schools serving 2,022 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Illinois. The school portfolio breaks down into 3 elementary, 1 middle, 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 Lake County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $17,621 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 44.7% local, 45.1% state, and 10.2% 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 43/100, ranked #265 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.
and 37.8% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 63.7% Hispanic or Latino, 19.7% African American, 10.2% White across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Kenneth Murphy School, with a diversity index of 59.6/100.
Its largest campus is Beach Park Middle School, enrolling 715 students (36% of the district's total enrollment).
Beach Park Middle School accounts for 35.4% of all Beach Park Ccsd 3 student enrollment
That dominant concentration means Beach Park Ccsd 3-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the dominant entity. Grade band: middle. 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.
Beach Park Ccsd 3 school enrollment varies 2.7× across entities
Beach Park Ccsd 3 school enrollment ranges from 261 students (lowest) to 715 students (highest), a spread of 454 students. That relatively narrow ratio reflects an unusually homogeneous campus portfolio, most districts have a wider mix of school sizes. Per-school staffing ratios, programme availability, and capital-renovation cycles often diverge inside the same district based on enrollment shape.
Beach Park Ccsd 3 chronic absenteeism rate is 37.8% — high (typically associated with higher-than-average disruption; recent CRDC data showed elevated rates persisting after pandemic-era schooling changes)
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 Higher values may reflect larger urban scale or recent resource constraints that have widened the gap.