At $26,882 per pupil, Crescent Iroquois Cusd 249 ranks #49 of 845 Illinois districts by per-pupil spending (Illinois districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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District-Level NCES Analysis
Crescent Iroquois Cusd 249 operates 1 public schools serving 68 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Illinois. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 elementary 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 $26,882 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, among the top 85 of 845 Illinois districts by per-pupil spending. See how Illinois compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 67.0% local, 25.1% state, and 7.9% federal, a local-revenue-heavy mix that leaves the district more exposed to property-tax swings and local ballot measures than state-funded peers.
and 20.4% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 79.6% White, 7.4% Hispanic or Latino, 1.9% African American across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Crescent City Grade School, enrolling 54 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Enrollment across the district's NCES-reporting campuses fell 23.5% between 2022-23 and 2023-24 (68 to 52 students), and the student-teacher ratio tightened by 4.0 students per teacher as staffing held steadier than enrollment, per the NCES Common Core of Data annual universe files.
Of the district's $2,396,000 in reported FY2023 expenditures, 34.3% went to instruction, 39.6% to support services, and 5% to capital outlay, support-services-heavy relative to typical districts, reflecting spending on transportation, administration, or student services. Figures come from the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey's function-level breakdown, not the aggregate per-pupil figure above.
Crescent City Grade School accounts for 79.4% of all Crescent Iroquois Cusd 249 student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Crescent Iroquois Cusd 249 a distant remainder — means Crescent Iroquois Cusd 249-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade band: elementary. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how the district allocates programs, capital, or staff. Because it contains a majority of the affected population, enrollment-weighted aggregates will sit closer to this entity's reported fields than to those of smaller peers; an unweighted entity count answers a different question.
Crescent Iroquois Cusd 249 chronic absenteeism rate is 20.4% — 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 Crescent Iroquois Cusd 249 is typically wider than the Crescent Iroquois Cusd 249-aggregate figure suggests.