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Carbondale, Illinois - 4 schools
An equity score of 54/100 ranks Carbondale Esd 95 #47 of 763 districts in Illinois (state average 38). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $21,377 per pupil, Carbondale Esd 95 ranks #134 of 848 Illinois districts by per-pupil spending (Illinois districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
1,546
Total Enrollment
4
Schools
$21,377
Per-Pupil Spending
Elementary, Combined
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Carbondale Esd 95 operates 4 public schools serving 1,546 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Illinois. The school portfolio breaks down into 2 elementary, 1 combined, 1 middle 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 Jackson County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $21,377 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 48.6% local, 30.1% state, and 21.3% federal, a balanced mix across local, state, and federal sources, spreading budget risk across funding cycles rather than concentrating it in one. The district's equity score is 54/100, ranked #47 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.
a 457:1 student-counselor ratio, above both the ASCA benchmark and the roughly 408:1 national average, and 46.5% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 50.4% African American, 24.2% White, 12.1% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Carbondale Middle School, with a diversity index of 67.4/100.
Its largest campus is Parrish Elem School, enrolling 466 students (28% of the district's total enrollment).
Parrish Elem School accounts for 28.3% of all Carbondale Esd 95 student enrollment
That dominant concentration means Carbondale Esd 95-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the dominant entity. Grade band: combined. 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.
Carbondale Esd 95 student-counselor ratio is 457:1 — high (typically associated with staffing constraints that limit per-student counselor time; CRDC data shows higher ratios cluster in larger urban systems)
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 Higher values may reflect larger urban scale or recent resource constraints that have widened the gap.
Carbondale Esd 95 chronic absenteeism rate is 46.5% — 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.