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Breese, Illinois - 2 schools
An equity score of 15/100 ranks Breese Esd 12 #747 of 763 districts in Illinois (state average 38). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $9,871 per pupil, Breese Esd 12 ranks #841 of 848 Illinois districts by per-pupil spending (Illinois districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
605
Total Enrollment
2
Schools
$9,871
Per-Pupil Spending
Elementary, Combined
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Breese Esd 12 operates 2 public schools serving 605 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Illinois. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 elementary, 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 Clinton County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $9,871 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 51.1% local, 36.0% state, and 12.9% federal, a local-revenue-heavy mix that leaves the district more exposed to property-tax swings and local ballot measures than state-funded peers. The district's equity score is 15/100, ranked #747 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.
and 9.3% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 84.8% White, 12.4% Hispanic or Latino, 1.1% African American across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Breese Elem School, enrolling 357 students (59% of the district's total enrollment).
Breese Elem School accounts for 58.8% of all Breese Esd 12 student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Breese Esd 12 a distant remainder — means Breese Esd 12-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the dominant entity. Grade band: elementary. 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.
Breese Esd 12 chronic absenteeism rate is 9.3% — well below typical (typically associated with unusually small scale or exceptionally high per-unit investment)
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 below typical often correlate with unusually small scale or population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se — worth checking whether the underlying denominator is itself an outlier.