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Brussels, Illinois - 2 schools
At $19,000 per pupil, Brussels Cusd 42 ranks #213 of 848 Illinois districts by per-pupil spending (Illinois districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
97
Total Enrollment
2
Schools
$19,000
Per-Pupil Spending
Elementary, Combined
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Brussels Cusd 42 operates 2 public schools serving 97 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 Calhoun County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $19,000 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 57.2% local, 33.1% state, and 9.7% federal, a local-revenue-heavy mix that leaves the district more exposed to property-tax swings and local ballot measures than state-funded peers.
a 109:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, and 11.3% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 89.9% White, 4.4% Hispanic or Latino, 3.5% African American across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Brussels Grade School, enrolling 67 students (61% of the district's total enrollment).
Brussels Grade School accounts for 61.5% of all Brussels Cusd 42 student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Brussels Cusd 42 a distant remainder — means Brussels Cusd 42-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.
Brussels Cusd 42 student-counselor ratio is 109:1 — well below typical (typically associated with unusually small scale or exceptionally high per-unit investment)
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 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.
Brussels Cusd 42 chronic absenteeism rate is 11.3% — low (typically associated with lower-than-average attendance disruption; districts in this range often have attendance interventions, robust transportation, or smaller catchments that reduce barriers)
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 Lower values often correlate with smaller scale and population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se.