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Carrier Mills, Illinois - 2 schools
An equity score of 57/100 ranks Carrier Mills-Stonefort Cusd 2 #29 of 763 districts in Illinois (state average 38). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $14,535 per pupil, Carrier Mills-Stonefort Cusd 2 ranks #548 of 848 Illinois districts by per-pupil spending (Illinois districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
447
Total Enrollment
2
Schools
$14,535
Per-Pupil Spending
Combined, High
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Carrier Mills-Stonefort Cusd 2 operates 2 public schools serving 447 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Illinois. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 combined, 1 high 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 Saline County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $14,535 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the lower half of 848 Illinois districts by per-pupil spending. See how Illinois compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 19.3% local, 57.1% state, and 23.6% 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 57/100, ranked #29 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 94:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, and 36.5% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 77.8% White, 7.9% African American, 2.3% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Carrier Mills-Stonefort Elem Sch, enrolling 300 students (76% of the district's total enrollment). Its smallest is Carrier Mills-Stonefort H S, at 94 students, a 3x enrollment spread across the district's campuses.
Carrier Mills-Stonefort Elem Sch accounts for 67.1% of all Carrier Mills-Stonefort Cusd 2 student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Carrier Mills-Stonefort Cusd 2 a distant remainder — means Carrier Mills-Stonefort Cusd 2-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.
Carrier Mills-Stonefort Cusd 2 student-counselor ratio is 94:1 — 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.
Carrier Mills-Stonefort Cusd 2 chronic absenteeism rate is 36.5% — high (typically associated with higher-than-average disruption; recent CRDC data showed elevated rates persisting after pandemic-era schooling changes)
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 Higher values may reflect larger urban scale or recent resource constraints that have widened the gap.
Comparisons are relative to Carrier Mills-Stonefort Cusd 2's own figures; each column derives from NCES Common Core of Data and the F-33 Finance Survey.
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