At $16,296 per pupil, Bradford Cusd 1 ranks #489 of 845 Illinois districts by per-pupil spending (Illinois districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
179
Total Enrollment
2
Schools
$16,296
Per-Pupil Spending
Combined, Middle
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Bradford Cusd 1 operates 2 public schools serving 179 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Illinois. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 combined, 1 middle 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 Stark County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $16,296 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the lower half of 845 Illinois districts by per-pupil spending. See how Illinois compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 68.0% local, 20.6% state, and 11.5% federal, a local-revenue-heavy mix that leaves the district more exposed to property-tax swings and local ballot measures than state-funded peers.
and 36.8% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 90.7% White, 3.0% African American, 2.8% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Bradford Grade School, enrolling 123 students (73% of the district's total enrollment).
Enrollment across the district's NCES-reporting campuses held roughly steady from 2022-23 to 2023-24 (179 to 176 students, -1.7%), per the NCES Common Core of Data annual universe files.
Of the district's $4,215,000 in reported FY2023 expenditures, 40.5% went to instruction, 26.7% to support services, and 11.5% 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.
Bradford Grade School accounts for 68.7% of all Bradford Cusd 1 student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Bradford Cusd 1 a distant remainder — means Bradford Cusd 1-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.
Bradford Cusd 1 chronic absenteeism rate is 36.8% — 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.