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Carterville, Illinois - 4 schools
An equity score of 19/100 ranks Carterville Cusd 5 #707 of 763 districts in Illinois (state average 38). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $9,143 per pupil, Carterville Cusd 5 ranks #846 of 848 Illinois districts by per-pupil spending (Illinois districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
2,218
Total Enrollment
4
Schools
$9,143
Per-Pupil Spending
Elementary, High
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Carterville Cusd 5 operates 4 public schools serving 2,218 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Illinois. The school portfolio breaks down into 2 elementary, 1 high, 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 Williamson County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $9,143 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, among the bottom 85 of 848 Illinois districts by per-pupil spending. See how Illinois compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 43.8% local, 43.4% state, and 12.8% 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 19/100, ranked #707 of 763 in Illinois against a state average of 38, notably less even than the typical district in the state for how evenly funding reaches its schools.
Academic infrastructure includes 1 of 4 schools offering Advanced Placement (4 AP courses district-wide), a 457:1 student-counselor ratio, above both the ASCA benchmark and the roughly 408:1 national average, and 21.6% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 80.7% White, 6.3% Hispanic or Latino, 3.4% African American across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Carterville Jr High Sch, with a diversity index of 36.1/100.
Its largest campus is Carterville High School, enrolling 668 students (31% of the district's total enrollment).
Carterville High School accounts for 30.1% of all Carterville Cusd 5 student enrollment
That dominant concentration means Carterville Cusd 5-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the dominant entity. Grade band: high. 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.
Carterville Cusd 5 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.
Carterville Cusd 5 chronic absenteeism rate is 21.6% — near the typical range (US average ~28) — aligned with the national post-pandemic baseline of roughly 28% chronic absenteeism
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 Variation between sub-units within Carterville Cusd 5 is typically wider than the Carterville Cusd 5-aggregate figure suggests.