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Bradford, Illinois - 2 schools
At $15,347 per pupil, Bradford Cusd 1 ranks #473 of 848 Illinois districts by per-pupil spending (Illinois districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
179
Total Enrollment
2
Schools
$15,347
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 $15,347 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the lower half of 848 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).
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 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.
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.