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Cissna Park, Illinois - 3 schools
An equity score of 31/100 ranks Cissna Park Cusd 6 #544 of 763 districts in Illinois (state average 38). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $14,705 per pupil, Cissna Park Cusd 6 ranks #530 of 848 Illinois districts by per-pupil spending (Illinois districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
280
Total Enrollment
3
Schools
$14,705
Per-Pupil Spending
Elementary, High
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Cissna Park Cusd 6 operates 3 public schools serving 280 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Illinois. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 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 Iroquois County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $14,705 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 56.1% local, 36.3% state, and 7.6% federal, a local-revenue-heavy mix that leaves the district more exposed to property-tax swings and local ballot measures than state-funded peers. The district's equity score is 31/100, ranked #544 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.
a 97.3:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, and 16.3% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 87.2% White, 8.4% Hispanic or Latino, 3.1% African American across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Cissna Park Elementary School, with a diversity index of 30.1/100.
Its largest campus is Cissna Park Elementary School, enrolling 128 students (44% of the district's total enrollment).
Cissna Park Elementary School accounts for 43.8% of all Cissna Park Cusd 6 student enrollment
That dominant concentration means Cissna Park Cusd 6-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the dominant entity. Grade band: elementary. 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.
Cissna Park Cusd 6 student-counselor ratio is 97:1 — 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.
Cissna Park Cusd 6 chronic absenteeism rate is 16.3% — 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 Cissna Park Cusd 6 is typically wider than the Cissna Park Cusd 6-aggregate figure suggests.