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Calumet Park, Illinois - 3 schools
An equity score of 36/100 ranks Calumet Public Sd 132 #451 of 763 districts in Illinois (state average 38). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $16,285 per pupil, Calumet Public Sd 132 ranks #397 of 848 Illinois districts by per-pupil spending (Illinois districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
898
Total Enrollment
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Schools
$16,285
Per-Pupil Spending
Middle, Elementary
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Calumet Public Sd 132 operates 3 public schools serving 898 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Illinois. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 middle, 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 Cook County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $16,285 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 28.8% local, 56.8% state, and 14.4% federal, a state-revenue-heavy mix that insulates the district somewhat from local property-tax volatility, though it ties funding to state budget cycles. The district's equity score is 36/100, ranked #451 of 763 in Illinois against a state average of 38, in line with the typical spread seen across the state for how evenly funding reaches its schools.
and 46.1% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 71.1% African American, 27.0% Hispanic or Latino, 0.3% White across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Burr Oak Elem School, with a diversity index of 45.0/100.
Its largest campus is Calumet Elem School, enrolling 316 students (35% of the district's total enrollment).
Calumet Elem School accounts for 35.2% of all Calumet Public Sd 132 student enrollment
That dominant concentration means Calumet Public Sd 132-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the dominant entity. Grade band: middle. 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.
Calumet Public Sd 132 chronic absenteeism rate is 46.1% — well above typical (typically associated with unusually large scale or acute resource constraints)
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 above typical often signal acute resource constraints or a structurally different scale than most peers — worth reading alongside the underlying counts, not the ratio alone.