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Beardstown, Illinois - 3 schools
An equity score of 26/100 ranks Beardstown Cusd 15 #625 of 763 districts in Illinois (state average 38). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $12,115 per pupil, Beardstown Cusd 15 ranks #771 of 848 Illinois districts by per-pupil spending (Illinois districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
1,506
Total Enrollment
3
Schools
$12,115
Per-Pupil Spending
Combined, Elementary
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Beardstown Cusd 15 operates 3 public schools serving 1,506 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Illinois. The school portfolio breaks down into 2 combined, 1 elementary 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 Cass County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $12,115 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, among the bottom 85 of 848 Illinois districts by per-pupil spending. See how Illinois compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 22.2% local, 67.6% state, and 10.2% federal, a state-revenue-heavy mix that insulates the district somewhat from local property-tax volatility, though it ties funding to state budget cycles. The district's equity score is 26/100, ranked #625 of 763 in Illinois against a state average of 38, notably less even than the typical district in the state for how evenly funding reaches its schools.
Academic infrastructure includes 1 of 3 schools offering Advanced Placement (5 AP courses district-wide), a 410:1 student-counselor ratio, above both the ASCA benchmark and the roughly 408:1 national average, and 21.6% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 46.4% Hispanic or Latino, 23.9% White, 16.0% African American across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Beardstown Jr/Sr High School, enrolling 820 students (48% of the district's total enrollment). Its smallest is Grand Ave Sch, at 184 students, a 4x enrollment spread across the district's campuses.
Beardstown Jr/Sr High School accounts for 47.8% of all Beardstown Cusd 15 student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Beardstown Cusd 15 a distant remainder — means Beardstown Cusd 15-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the dominant entity. Grade band: combined. 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.
Beardstown Cusd 15 school enrollment varies 4.5× across entities
Beardstown Cusd 15 school enrollment ranges from 184 students (lowest) to 820 students (highest), a spread of 636 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.
Beardstown Cusd 15 student-counselor ratio is 410:1 — 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.
Beardstown Cusd 15 chronic absenteeism rate is 21.6% — near the typical range (US average ~28) — aligned with the national post-pandemic baseline of roughly 28% chronic absenteeism
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 Variation between sub-units within Beardstown Cusd 15 is typically wider than the Beardstown Cusd 15-aggregate figure suggests.