An equity score of 56/100 ranks Carbon Cliff-Barstow Sd 36 #44 of 759 districts in Illinois (state average 38). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $15,601 per pupil, Carbon Cliff-Barstow Sd 36 ranks #549 of 845 Illinois districts by per-pupil spending (Illinois districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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District-Level NCES Analysis
Carbon Cliff-Barstow Sd 36 operates 1 public schools serving 278 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Illinois. The school portfolio breaks down into 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 Rock Island County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $15,601 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the lower half of 845 Illinois districts by per-pupil spending. See how Illinois compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 26.1% local, 56.6% state, and 17.3% 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 56/100, ranked #44 of 759 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 63.0% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 52.9% White, 34.0% African American, 9.2% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Eagle Ridge School, enrolling 238 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Eagle Ridge School accounts for 85.6% of all Carbon Cliff-Barstow Sd 36 student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Carbon Cliff-Barstow Sd 36 a distant remainder — means Carbon Cliff-Barstow Sd 36-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade band: combined. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how the district allocates programs, capital, or staff. Because it contains a majority of the affected population, enrollment-weighted aggregates will sit closer to this entity's reported fields than to those of smaller peers; an unweighted entity count answers a different question.
Carbon Cliff-Barstow Sd 36 chronic absenteeism rate is 63.0% — 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.