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Coal City, Illinois - 5 schools
An equity score of 15/100 ranks Coal City Cusd 1 #742 of 763 districts in Illinois (state average 38). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $15,213 per pupil, Coal City Cusd 1 ranks #485 of 848 Illinois districts by per-pupil spending (Illinois districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
2,112
Total Enrollment
5
Schools
$15,213
Per-Pupil Spending
Elementary, High
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Coal City Cusd 1 operates 5 public schools serving 2,112 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Illinois. The school portfolio breaks down into 2 elementary, 1 high, 1 middle, 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 Grundy County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $15,213 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 80.7% local, 10.5% state, and 8.8% 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 15/100, ranked #742 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 5 schools offering Advanced Placement (12 AP courses district-wide), a 356.3:1 student-counselor ratio, well above the ASCA benchmark though still under the roughly 408:1 national average, and 9.7% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 82.6% White, 12.9% Hispanic or Latino, 1.0% Asian across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Coal City Elem School, with a diversity index of 38.1/100.
Its largest campus is Coal City High School, enrolling 642 students (30% of the district's total enrollment).
Coal City High School accounts for 30.2% of all Coal City Cusd 1 student enrollment
That dominant concentration means Coal City Cusd 1-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.
Coal City Cusd 1 school enrollment varies 2.2× across entities
Coal City Cusd 1 school enrollment ranges from 294 students (lowest) to 642 students (highest), a spread of 348 students. That relatively narrow ratio reflects an unusually homogeneous campus portfolio, most districts have a wider mix of school sizes. Per-school staffing ratios, programme availability, and capital-renovation cycles often diverge inside the same district based on enrollment shape.
Coal City Cusd 1 student-counselor ratio is 356:1 — 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.
Coal City Cusd 1 chronic absenteeism rate is 9.7% — well below typical (typically associated with unusually small scale or exceptionally high per-unit investment)
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 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.