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Chicago Heights, Illinois - 2 schools
An equity score of 38/100 ranks Bloom Twp Hsd 206 #387 of 763 districts in Illinois (state average 38). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $20,120 per pupil, Bloom Twp Hsd 206 ranks #171 of 848 Illinois districts by per-pupil spending (Illinois districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
2,964
Total Enrollment
2
Schools
$20,120
Per-Pupil Spending
High
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Bloom Twp Hsd 206 operates 2 public schools serving 2,964 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Illinois. The school portfolio breaks down into 2 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 Cook County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $20,120 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 45.3% local, 46.1% state, and 8.7% 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 38/100, ranked #387 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.
Academic infrastructure includes 2 of 2 schools offering Advanced Placement (55 AP courses district-wide), a 231.7:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, and 54.8% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 50.2% African American, 41.3% Hispanic or Latino, 6.2% White across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Bloom High School, enrolling 1,823 students (60% of the district's total enrollment).
Bloom High School accounts for 59.9% of all Bloom Twp Hsd 206 student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Bloom Twp Hsd 206 a distant remainder — means Bloom Twp Hsd 206-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.
Bloom Twp Hsd 206 student-counselor ratio is 232:1 — low (typically associated with meeting or exceeding the American School Counselor Association (ASCA) recommended 250:1 benchmark, which correlates with stronger college and career counseling capacity)
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 Lower values often correlate with smaller scale and population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se.
Bloom Twp Hsd 206 chronic absenteeism rate is 54.8% — 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.