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Oak Brook, Illinois - 3 schools
An equity score of 50/100 ranks Butler Sd 53 #109 of 763 districts in Illinois (state average 38). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $31,573 per pupil, Butler Sd 53 ranks #13 of 848 Illinois districts by per-pupil spending (Illinois districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
463
Total Enrollment
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Schools
$31,573
Per-Pupil Spending
Elementary, Middle
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Butler Sd 53 operates 3 public schools serving 463 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Illinois. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 elementary, 1 middle, 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 Dupage County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $31,573 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, among the top 85 of 848 Illinois districts by per-pupil spending. See how Illinois compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 78.2% local, 19.6% state, and 2.2% 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 50/100, ranked #109 of 763 in Illinois against a state average of 38, notably more 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 56.7% Asian, 30.6% White, 4.5% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Brook Forest Elem School, with a diversity index of 64.8/100.
Its largest campus is Brook Forest Elem School, enrolling 293 students (63% of the district's total enrollment). Its smallest is Oak Brook Park District, at 7 students, a 42x enrollment spread across the district's campuses.
Brook Forest Elem School accounts for 63.3% of all Butler Sd 53 student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Butler Sd 53 a distant remainder — means Butler Sd 53-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.
Butler Sd 53 school enrollment varies 42× across entities
Butler Sd 53 school enrollment ranges from 7 students (lowest) to 293 students (highest), a spread of 286 students. That ratio is among the widest observed and reflects extreme enrollment heterogeneity, the district operates both small specialty programs and large comprehensive campuses inside a single budgeting unit. Per-school staffing ratios, programme availability, and capital-renovation cycles often diverge inside the same district based on enrollment shape.
Butler Sd 53 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.